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was quite easy for her, because she saw everything perfectly with the inner vision, which people usually call understanding. And like a sister, she willingly opened her eyes for people at first.

      However, the result was disappointing.

      After it, people fell as if struck. Some even died. Because of this, the poor beauty Midday cried for a long time. And then she decided to live without opening her eyes.

      What’s the problem? She has no harm from this. She can see everything. And there would be no harm for people as well. Nobody would argue and curse her.

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      So everything could be as usually.

      But once the Scythian lands were attacked by enemies.

      Hordes of cruel warriors swooped down from the north. The northerners liked fertile southern steppes full of wild horses; they liked the generous sea full of tasty fish; they liked warm gentle sun – everything absent in the north.

      So, they decided to move the Scythians out of these fertile lands to settle themselves there.

      The Scythians stiffly fought against them for their homeland. But the forces were unequal. Too many northerners flooded the warm Scythian region.

      The Scythians started appealing to their gods begging to teach them how to defend the homeland, how to defeat the cruel enemies?

      Many times Morning and Evening changed each other, and the Scythians still retreated and retreated, leaving their fields, meadows and coastline for enemies.

      One day, when everyone was already in despair, the Scythians appealed to their last hope – Midnight and Midday.

      The sisters conferred.

      Midnight came to the Scythians with a prophetic dream, telling them to sew very strange deep hats with wide fields over shoulders.

      The next morning all the Scythians woke up with a strange feeling, as if they took a lesson at night teaching them how to sew the hat. They could ignore the strange dream if there were one or several of them. But it was too strange that all the Scythians had the same dream about the strange hats: soldiers, their wives, even children.

      What to do – if they asked a question to Midnight and got the answer, they could not ignore it. They were to sew the strange hats. But it turned out to be hard to sew so many of them fast! So, the Scythians simplified the style: they put two pieces of leather together joining them with one seam from the nose to the shoulder blades. Only this way they coped with it.

      In the following dream before the decisive battle against the northerners, Midnight ordered all the Scythians to put those weird hats on and go out to fight the enemy without any fear. Only if there would be a dancer in white – not to look at her in any case, put the hat deeper and cover themselves with the fields.

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      The northerners inspired by a number of victories were eager to fight from the early morning. Their leaders had iron helmets on, and ordinary soldiers were bareheaded.

      When they saw the Scythian army wearing the strange hats, they burst out laughing, jeering and mocking. Going to the decisive battle, they already considered themselves as winners.

      …Meanwhile, a beautiful barefoot girl in white flying dress appeared in the clearing between the two armies. Her eyes were closed. But she danced so beautifully that it was impossible not to look at her. Skirts of light flowed around the slender legs, flexible hands splashed like flames above her head, the hair shining in the sun blinded everyone with unearthly beauty. The enemy soldiers admired her until feeling dizzy, forgetting about everything: attack, booties and the very time.

      It was Midday.

      Sharply at noon, she opened her black eyes. Everyone admiring her was struck.

      The Scythian army was only to expel the enemies who had completely lost their ability to fight.

      The northerners’ leaders, groaning, took their red-hot iron helmets off, ordinary soldiers fell like sheaves clipped by sickles.

      This way, the Scythian lands were liberated from the invaders. Since then, the Scythians have been used to crest hats with wide fields over shoulders.

      And Midday stopped considering herself a loser.

      Why Midday’s eyes are sewn up

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      This was back in the days when Midday was big-eyed like all pretty girls.

      Her dress was light-colored, she had a wreath of ears on her head, bare feet, dancing gait. She was incredibly beautiful like hot flavor of solar noon.

      Still, she was not all like this.

      Her eyes were totally black. The look of those eyes was deadly to anyone who dared to admire her midday beauty.

      It made Midday upset very much. She wanted to find a fiancé! Merry and beautiful!

      Midday was responsible for a narrow passage between the worlds, which was like a bottleneck. Only once a day it was possible go from that world to our one and back – at noon sharp.

      Midday performed her duties conscientiously, but there was a problem: she was curious. Once, she looked at the other side of the transition, at another world for a moment. There, she saw handsome young men who were not going to fall after her black looks.

      “How nice!” She was delighted. “How wonderful! Finally, I’ll find a fiancé who will not die of loving me!”

      She started posing in front of them and even lured several ones to our world through the transition that was strictly forbidden.

      They danced together on the wheat field in the sun, reeled and boasted of the young prowess. Midday was a great dancer. Oh, how the skirts twined around her – like flames! How her sunny hair shone – like a beacon in the darkness! How her black eyes sparkled – like lightning!

      And the handsome visitors, of course, did not die due to lethal Midday’s looks, but still behaved very strangely. From time to time… they turned out through the navel and went to dance again!

      Midday got scared:

      “These are famous immortal Turncoats! What have I done! Why have I brought these evil schemers to the human world?!”

      But it was too late: the sun went behind a cloud and then completely passed over the noon.

      Turncoats left Midday and went easily through Scythian settlements.

      And that’s what they have done.

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      One of them met a Scythian girl.

      Merry and beautiful – she could not avoid falling in love with him. With all of her heart, she believed his words about love and faithfulness bringing him to her parents’ house. The family began dissuading her:

      “Do not trust the stranger. He does not appreciate bread in our house; he does not break it, but cuts. He demeans the akinak dagger, plays with it like a toy. He does not respect seniors, interrupts them with words. He will break your heart, turn out and leave!”

      It happened this way.

      Other Turncoats rolled up to the Scythian guys, hunters. They described easy, sweet and carefree life overseas. They called them to the ship beautifully rocking on blue waves. The relatives could not dissuade them:

      “Do not trust the strangers. They do not appreciate bread in our house; they do not break it, but cut. They demean the akinak dagger; play with it like a toy. They do not respect seniors, interrupt them with words. Such ones are friends only during happiness, and if misfortune happens – they are windblown!”

      It happened this way. The travelers were caught by storm in the sea. The Scythians relied on the friends since each pair of hands is not

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