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[Alexandr Korol]

— What do you mean?
— Well, you know, there is a person, for example, and you see that he is so
loyal, naive, looking at you with naive eyes like a child, and whatever you tell
him, he will do. He is like that, ready to rush into battle, ready to work, but
behind how he behaves and speaks, there isn’t something hidden inside,
some hidden intention. I don’t feel it in him. He is as if here, here and now,
just like me, here and now. I am also like that when I talk to him. But when you
talk to a person so sincerely, and he seems to say one thing to you but thinks
something else inside himself, about himself, as if he is plotting something.
Or tells you one thing, but actually lies and thinks badly of you.

I even remember, there was such a moment. I had a guest a long time ago,
maybe five years ago. And there were many employees. And one employee
walks by, and I say: “And that one is a devil.” My friend, an acquaintance, asks:

— Why is that employee a devil?
— You know, here you are with me right now, and all the employees, those
who saw you out of the corner of their eye, they saw that I was standing or
sitting with someone, and I am busy. But they are not curious about who
you are. They simply understand that I am with a guest and that I should
not be disturbed. And so all the light, good employees, they think like that
at this moment. And I feel how everyone thinks. But that employee who is a
devil — he immediately has an evaluation. I feel exactly how he looks at you,
and he is interested in who you are, what you are. He is almost waiting
there for me to go to the toilet so he can come up to you and get acquainted.
Or he evaluates how you look, evaluates what car you arrived in. He has such
a reaction that you are already completely, as if disassembled into parts,
and he almost get under your skin to evaluate you. That employee, imagine,
thinks so loudly and noisily right now. And I feel this bubbling noise of his.

But then I told my friend that this employee, who is like that, I have several
of them. And I feel that this demon sits in them. But he is as if in some sleep
mode, and for now, this person doesn’t harm me, but in the future, I am
sort of sure that this dark force will wake up in him, and then this employee