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Butterfly Effect. Ellina Devyatova
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Год выпуска 2025
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Автор произведения Ellina Devyatova
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Before long*, he made it to a branch that was high enough to let him see the nearby surroundings. He moved slightly away from the trunk for a clearer view and looked around. K recognized the hill with stone castles on its sides at once, and finding the bushes where their anthill was hidden was a piece of cake* after that. But the path he had to traverse didn’t appear to be a walk in the park* at all. There was a field overgrown with long grass on the way. The field wasn’t a problem by itself, but it was the territory of red ants – the mortal enemies of K’s species. The field ended at a small stream, which acted as a natural border between their universes. In a drought-ridden season*, the stream dried out, occasional fights became inevitable and not everyone returned home on those days.
Looking at the way through the field he needed to overcome, K remembered Oz again, “Where’s that Great and Powerful Oz when you need him so much?!” But it seemed like this way he had to overcome by himself, even though it wasn’t made of yellow bricks.
K stopped thinking for a moment and closed his eyes. The light draft of the still morning fresh air touched his face, filled his soul, and cleared his head. All troubles that had already happened were in the past, all that would come were somewhere in the future, and that was the moment of perfection, the moment of now, the only time we actually live in. The feeling captivated him so much that he wished his whole body was exposed to that flow of refreshing timelessness. Slowly, he rose up and stood on his two back feet. And this is where the fresh air played a trick* on him. K became exposed not only to its freshness but to the sheer power of it and immediately was blown off the branch. “Oh bother! Not this again!” thought K spinning in the air. Only he wished to think of something else when his flight was suddenly interrupted.
He got stuck in a spider’s web spun among the branches. The cobweb was a bit sticky, but for ants with their tiny bodies and feet, that wasn’t a big problem, and shortly K tore himself off the web. But he wasn’t there alone, as it appeared. There was a big white cocoon closer to the lower side of the web, and it was trembling from time to time. K came closer and soon he recognized who was wrapped in that cocoon.
It was the very same butterfly he saw earlier this morning. Just to think, an hour ago, she was flitting about in the valley from one flower to another, illumed with the shine of a young day, and singing joyous songs full of happiness that could charm even a stone or a blade of grass in this furious world. And now, poor thing got trapped in the net of a fate insatiable for a grief. She was all wrapped up in a cover of a sticky cobweb hardly being able to move a leg. How could that happen to her and why? Should K know an answer to any of those questions it wouldn’t help anyway! But there were others, perhaps, more important now to get answers to. Is it possible, indeed, that his envy was really all in vain? The envy of her happiness? The envy of her wings and freedom? It seemed like none of those matters and this could happen to anyone. K couldn’t figure it out completely and was just surmising. But what we can say for sure is that something changed in his head at that moment.
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