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[Alexandr Korol]

– Okay, where is the ocean?
– There.
– Okay, let’s go there, just straight there.

And he opens the map, which is typical of someone from the world of earth, the world of humans, and starts looking at the map, choosing a nearby city, off to the side, either left or right. I say:

– Wait. Don’t go left or right. It has to be straight.
– But there’s nothing there.
– Well, then let’s go to nothing.

We arrive, and it turns out there’s a small town. It’s strange that I didn’t go there that time; I should have. I’ll go there this year. So, we’re just driving there in the car, and we see a billboard on the way out of town, as we’re about to get on the highway. I see it says “King Tut” and something else, a big billboard. Well, my friend noticed it, and I did too. Then, when we arrive in the town, there’s another billboard, different, from a different company, with different advertising, but it still says “King Tut.” We park right by it, I didn’t know why, it just happens, the system highlights it. We get out of the car, and it’s about half an hour before sunset. And he says:

– Where to next?
– Let’s just walk around the city. No need to plan, don’t think with your mind. This is a world without the mind.

And we go. And just the first antique shop on the left catches our eye. It’s a curious little store, like something out of a magical film. He says:

– Let’s go in, you wanted a ring, right?, – he says to me, and I had been wanting to make a ring with a gemstone for myself.
– Let’s go.

We go in, and I see a display cabinet with an Egyptian silver ring lying there.