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Svetlana de Rohan-Levashova. Revelation

– Grandma! Dear, please, help!

I was in the grip of such deep emotion that I almost lost my voice. I was ready to
go through fire and water and promise to do anything, if only she helped me! Although
I did not even know how she could, I felt that she knew something and therefore she
was able to help me somehow.
But grandmother did not answer; apparently, she was out in the garden. I tried to
get up but the room at once begun to whirl and I fell down on the floor slap-bang failing
to grip the bed. It was a hopeless undertaking. I was very weak and understood that it
was out of the question to continue my journey now. The bitter child's offense gained
the upper hand over me and I burst into tears, forgetting about my "courage and
strength" with which I constantly tried to inbue myself...

Grandmother came in approximately half an hour later and found me in my bed,
upset and blubbering. She knew exactly that I would never cry without a good reason.
Therefore, she attentively looked into my eyes, sat on the edge of the bed and quietly,
as usual, pronounced:
– Well, what do we have here? Tell me.
I tried to tell her Isidora’s story as detailed as possible. She listened attentively,
without interrupting or correcting, and when I finished, sympathetically said:

– And you grieve now because you’ll never know the end of
the story? I nodded.

– Remember, my dear. Everything that happens in our life always
happens for a reason.
Probably she wanted you to hear her story for some reason.

– But I am still little. What can I do? – I was honestly surprised.
– But you will grow up, and who knows, maybe you can help people to know
about Isidora.
– How will I help, if I don’t know what happened to her next? – I was indignant.

– I’ll help, dear. You need to get a bit better, then I’ll help you, – grandmother
answered very calmly. – But you must promise me that you won’t be there very long!
– But how will you help me, if Isidora has already told everything? It’s too late!
– I was terribly distressed.

– It isn’t, dear. I’ll help you to return to the moment from which you left, –
grandmother said with all calmness in the world.
As usual, I showered her with questions. But she paid no attention to them, only
commented that it was possible to do many other things, much greater than that, but
it was too early for me to know about them... And no matter how zealously I pressed
her, I succeeded in nothing.
Several days later, as soon as my mother went to work, grandmother mysteriously
looked at me and seriously pronounced:

– Well, are you ready, little traveller?
I had a lump in my throat. Frankly speaking I did not entirely believe that the
miracle was possible, but grandmother was my only hope and I could not miss the

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