Super Queen-Mother. Book III. The Seventh
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Super Queen-Mother returned to her place of work.
She checked the work of her department during her absence, made sure of the smooth functioning of all subdivisions and decided to take a day off. The official opening of her complex was the next day.
Super Queen-Mother imposed the internal order for her department to start arrangements for moving to their regular offices.
Each of her co-workers had already visited their future places of work and knew where his or her new office was. They needed only to have furniture and office machines removed.
Her day off began with a visit to her parents.
Nothing had changed in her house. The dogs started barking in unison, distrusting her combat body. Her parents had to take them away for a while.
Super Queen-Mother walked leisurely around the whole house, and only then sat down to table with her parents. They were silently eating, looking at each other from time to time.
After the meal, when they were sitting in the armchairs, her father asked:
“How are you? Tell us everything in the right order, starting from the moment when you had moved out of the house.”
Super Queen-Mother felt as if she was a child, coming back from a summer camp, and it was a pleasant feeling. Her story was not long and gave only the main details of her life during her absence.
After they talked, Super Queen-Mother wished to be alone.
She went up to the terrace and got cosy into the chaise longue. Warm air, rich in the sea smells, surrounded her. The birds were twittering something on their own troubles, and Super Queen-Mother took a short nap.
She dreamt about two big thick clouds. One of them, on her right, was white, and the other one, on her left, was brown. They were spinning like two millstones, at an angle of 45 degrees, towards each other, and at the points of contact became like a waterfall, but they did not mix up. Super Queen-Mother was flying somewhere far above them.
Her short sleep was interrupted by a train whistle. Super Queen-Mother opened her eyes and, having remembered her dream, thought – what could it mean? Having not found the answer to her question, she easily got up, and went down into the yard.
A security officer reported to her about the state of affairs and asked for her further instructions. Super Queen-Mother wanted to have a rest on the sea; this was what she informed him about.
Chapter 6
The sun was lazily rolling in the sky dome, inevitably approaching the horizon, and losing big pieces from the pie, called a “sun heat”, on its way.
The convoy came to the sea. A developing evening breeze drove away the remnants of the stuffy heat from the shore front.
Super Queen-Mother came into a changing booth on the beach, put on her swimming suit and went to the sea. Small pebbles, mixed with the sand, warmed, but were not too hot for her feet.
Super Queen-Mother walked in the shallow water, along the beach strip for some time, and then came into the sea with great pleasure. She bathed near the shore a little, then turned onto her back and swam beyond the buoys.
In the distance she saw her dolphin. Super Queen-Mother wondered – how did it come to know that she was there?
She looked more attentively at the animal and noticed that it did not jump out of the water, did not utter any sounds, but was quickly rushing towards her. Super Queen-Mother thought:
“Maybe, something had happened to it?”
Suddenly, she understood that it was not her dolphin. Super Queen-Mother attentively looked at the approaching dolphin once more, and in support of her guess, the picture became yellowish-waxen.
The dolphin swam up quite close to her, and Super Queen-Motherу saw an apparatus fastened to it.
She intensified the color, swam aside and dove deep into the sea. From there she watched the dolphin with the apparatus coming into the zone she had just left.
A powerful explosion tore its body into small pieces, and only black flecks of the sea foam were swimming on the sea surface. Soon the sea dissolved them too. Nothing reminded her of what had just happened there.
Were it not for the alarm signals, which seemed to ring from all sides.
Boats with the teams of military swimmers were hurriedly put off from the ships.
Helicopters took off from the decks, blocking the whole perimeter.
Submarines started to move to the shore.
Planes formed a circle above the place of the incident.
The whole foreshore was instantly encircled by the military.
When Super Queen-Mother swam to the surface and saw all the arrangements of the military people, she thought about her friend-the-dolphin in the first place, who could be easily killed in this situation.
She quickly swam up to the nearest boat, came on its board and, having connected with the military commander of the sea group via the communication service, told him about the problem.
The commander did not readily agree with her. He was in rage because of the attack and wanted to sterilize the part of the sea, which Super Queen-Mother used, from everything alive in it.
The boat took her to the center of the closed zone, where Super Queen-Mother called her friend. She did not have to wait for long.
It swam up to her, and, as it seemed to her, quizzically looked at the pistol in her hands. Super Queen-Mother patted it and said:
“Bear with me. It’s your safety certificate”, and shot a radio beacon into its body. Then she again petted it and slightly pushed it off. It was not the right time to play with it.
Chapter 7
When Super Queen-Mother got home she:
– switched on the TV;
– shifted to an empty channel;