The Mist and the Lightning. Part VI
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Nikto laughed:
“If it weren’t so cold in the winter in the stable, they wouldn’t have become so overgrown with wool.”
“Yeah…”
“Is your stomach alright?” “Nah…”
Chapter five
Good weed. Lis and Squint-Eye talk about love
“Hi, Alis,” Squint-Eye went down the stairs to the hall and sat at the end of the table in Arel’s place. Leaning with his elbows on the countertop, he laid his chin on his hands with his palms open up:
“What are you doing?”
“Hello,” Lis muttered distantly, on the table in front of him lay a deck of cards.
“I thought everybody were already on a picnic.”
“They are,” Lis nodded and thoughtfully picked up the cards in his hands.
“Why don't you go?”
“I'll go now…” Slowly, as if reluctantly, Lis began to shuffle the deck. All the first half of the day he spent with Tol, until he ran away to
organize his lamb barbecue. When Lis was leaving, Asa, the dumb Asa, asked him:
“What bothers you so much?” She noticed it!
“Nothing!” He brushed off.
And she looked at him very seriously, and said, as he thought, a little regretfully:
“I would like to help you.”
He got angry. Probably not even on her, but on himself, for really wanting to share this with someone.
“It's all right, Asa.”
“Well, as you know,” she answered, shrugging her shoulders. She didn’t insist.
And he suddenly said:
“I just want to know the answer to one question, that's all.” She didn’t laugh, as he expected:
“Do you know what I do when I want to find out about something?” “Well?”
“I ask a question and remove the card from the deck. If the red color falls, then the answer is yes. If it is a black card, the answer is no.”
Lis pulled out a card.
“Let’s have a smoke?” Suggested Squint-Eye.
“With me?!” Today, everyone offered him something to do with them: Tol to drink, Squint-Eye to smoke, Asa to fuck. Or they suggested earlier, just Lis didn’t notice.
“Well, yes,” said Squint-Eye simply.
“But what about Arel? You usually light up with him.”
“Arel has already smoked a little since morning with Nik,” Squint-Eye grinned.
So all this was pointless! In vain Lis lurked so much time at Tol! Heck! “Why?!”
“What “Why?” Asked Squint-Eye, looking at Lis in surprise.
“Why did he smoke with Nikto, and not with you? After all, all the last time he was getting high with you!”
“Well yes. Lis, what are you getting at?”
“At nothing!” Lis looked at Squint-Eye with hatred.
Squint-Eye, not paying any attention to his gaze, saluted the tip of the jamb, set fire to it, dragging on. His eye was covered with a blindfold. Scruffy hair framed his thin face. Lis couldn’t understand what Arel found in this man. Why was he so loyally friends with him, for so many years. Why he sat for hours in his room.
“So what?” Squint-Eye inquiringly looked at Lis. “Come on…”
They lit up.
Lis took out another card. Just in case. To confirm answer?
“Are you still jealous of Arel, or what?” Asked Squint-Eye a bit later. “Why do you care so much that he gets high, as you put it, with me?”
“Squint-Eye, I feel sorry for you,” Lis said without annoyance.
“Does it infuriate you that he communicates with me, and not with you?”
“I don’t care!”
“Do you miss Arel?”
“I don't need Arel! And I'm tired of all these cheap jokes!” Squint-Eye laughed:
“Yeah. Everyone knows that Arel is the best lover in this city. And whoever tried him will never want anything else.”
“Yes, I have fucked him. So, what is next? I was pleased only that he obeyed me and was in my power. Nothing more! Got it?”
“Of course. Don’t freak out.”
“And now, already knowing what he is, I would not even be glad about that.”
“Why so?”
“I thought I meant something to him, and he gave me his body just because he gives it to everyone!”
Squint-Eye laughed even louder: “But this is not true!”
“It's true! And I won’t be surprised if he soon wants to suck off Vil!”
“Lis, you are really jealous! And you say that men's love is not in your style!”
“Exactly!”
“And you don’t have a woman!” “And I don’t have a man either!” “That's because you need only Arel.” “You don’t understand anything!”
“But at one point he was yours. He really loved you,” Squint-Eye was no longer laughing.
“Yes…” Lis agreed.
“He still loves you now.”
“Not anymore. He loves Nikto and it is for sure!”
“He's been with Nik for a long time. Maybe over time, he will start bothering him.”
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