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Svetlana de Rohan-Levashova. Revelation

– Oh, my dearest Sever! It’s nothing compared to the attempt to reach immortality
now. I have staked everything on it! I shall get what I desire using anything I can,
including crime...

I stood, unable to think... unable to come to any determination. There was only
one thought in my head – this is the end... I shall never see my dear brave girl again!
Caraffa has lost his iron patience and the most terrible events will happen right now...
Anna looked me right in the eyes and... smiled. I knew she was trying to calm me
down! Although I saw the animal fear that wildly squealed and tossed about deep in
her heart; I felt it and was unable to help her, because I could not betray her or myself...
or the dead. I could not betray other gifted ones, who lived in horror day after day
expecting their terrible death!

I had to destroy Caraffa... in order that he did not destroy the Earth.
We were just specks of dust, my daughter and I, compared to all those he had
murdered. The souls of gifted ones who died in torture called me every night, demanding
revenge...
Our lives (Anna’s and mine) did not matter, but for all that, I could not simply
allow her to die. I could not reconcile myself to her murderer…

– Try to delay him, hold him up, Isidora, – I heard Sever right in my brain. – I will
go to the White Volkhv.
And he disappeared, sharply thawing... Most likely, it was just me who heard his
last words, because Caraffa perplexedly looked for several seconds at the place where
Sever had just been. But, as usual, he very quickly came to himself and asked with
surprise in his voice:

– So, what? He deserted you so easily! Now what can you tell me about your
friendship!? Or does nobody in Meteora know what it is?
– No, Your Holiness, they know. And this is exactly what he tries to prove now.
For a moment Caraffa was submerged in deep thought, as if deciding what he
should do with us next. Suddenly he sharply turned around and shouted:

– Guards!
Two huge guardsmen barged into the room.

– Take her to the basement!
The guards sharply grasped Anna and dragged her to the door.
– This is the end. – I thought, paralyzed with fright.

But it was far from it. Anna sharply became straight and the two enormous guards
flew to the door and fell on the floor like heavy sacks.
– Well, well... – Caraffa whispered, fixing his piercing eyes at Anna. – She is truly
your daughter, Madonna. Let’s try to do otherwise.

He clapped his hands, calling new guards.
– Take the girl to my rooms and don’t let her out of your sight! – Caraffa
sharply ordered.
I did not understand yet what he was going to do this time. I had to do something,
to fight somehow... But how could I fight without understanding with what I should do

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