Alexandr Korol

when I drew them, I drew them in a way that — okay, yes, they exist, but there must also be the same ones, just from the other side, like a spiral. That is, these ones go clockwise, and there are others that go counterclockwise, from the other side, like the other side of the coin. And I thought: “Aha, what is this?” And I decided — plus-minus... I could’ve just called it plus-minus, but I started calling it Sun and Moon, and I told him it’s like there’s a positive world and a negative one, and I asked him where I am — under the Sun or the Moon. He said I’m in the lunar world, that is, in the minus. Imagine that — I’m in the minus, in the underworld. No wonder I’ve been feeling so strange, like everything is dim and lacking brightness? It all makes sense. Of course, I’m not in the depths of the underworld, not in darkness, not in temptations — no, a bit higher than all that — but still. I feel like I’m not exactly in the underworld, but I feel like I’ve been dipped into it, like a rabbit that’s already dirty, all soaked, sitting in this underworld, and everyone keeps poking me, and I’m holding myself back.
Well, and there will be ten trials from Mara, and you can’t even imagine what that’s like. It’s brutal, it’s very hard. It’s betrayal, setups from all sides, on a level that makes you want to tear your hair out, seriously. But I don’t understand — have I really become so strong that I’m calmly enduring it? Or am I just in some kind of shock for now, and soon they’ll finish me off and I’ll snap? I don’t know. But the trials, of course — they’re trials, I won’t list them, but they’re coming from all sides. I wonder how many more there will be. Well, in terms of timing, Big Alexander has told me more than once not to put too much stock in the timing the Mystic-Old-Man gives, because it can’t be exact, it’s impossible, since time stretches and compresses, shifts back and forth — everything could happen in a single day or, on the contrary, drag out for a long time. So it’s pointless to rely on time, there’s no point in giving meaning to the idea that I’ll be in the underworld until December. No, it could very well be that everything ends in September or maybe it all ends in May.
What else is interesting there? Well, it turns out, as you can see, that this isn’t the final trial, that after Mara there will still be a bunch of other trials. But I really liked this whole idea about the four stones — that everyone should take note of them — and the four colors, but that there’s also a fifth element, and that the fifth element, meaning fire, is gold. I really feel that the time will