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Yet she repeated ten times that I shouldn’t be afraid and that I would pass it
well and calmly, and that it is the last one. And here is the moment: the final
ninth circle and liberation belong to this specific cycle, the path of the novel
“Alternative History”. But that doesn’t mean that after this, I won’t be doing
anything. It just means that after that, something new will begin again.
She tells me that I will become like the Faceless Men in the series Game
of Thrones — nothing, no one, faceless. I say, “I understand you.” And she
says that this is what I am becoming. Then she tells me that I am one of the
pillars, that there are certain people who act as pillars upon which the entire
world rests, and I am one of them. She tells me:
— How can you, Alex, be afraid of anything or worry about yourself,
if you are one of the pillars? Nothing can ever happen to you unless it is
meant to happen.”
That is what else she told me. Furthermore, when I was recounting the
entire path I had traveled, and she heard about how I descended into the
underworld and managed to get back out, I saw her start thinking about
someone — as I understand it, some acquaintance of hers who is currently
in the underworld. She began asking how I got out and what I did. I started
listing all the methods, and then I said, “But it’s all in the book, in the fourth
volume of the novel “Alternative History”.” She turned directly to Masha
and said, “Masha, you have this book, give it to me.” I saw an almost frantic
level of interest in Valentina to take all this information in order to save
someone and pull them out of the underworld.
I also saw what the Spirit was indignant about regarding Valentina.
I will record this in the book as well, and I don’t feel like I’m crossing
any boundaries. I believe — or rather, the Spirit believes — that since she
didn’t hear it the first time, I need to emphasize it directly in the book so
everyone knows her mistake. That way, if she ever comes across this book
again, she will have to think about it one more time. The Spirit was outraged
that for many years she has been picking up these “scruffy losers” men —
well and calmly, and that it is the last one. And here is the moment: the final
ninth circle and liberation belong to this specific cycle, the path of the novel
“Alternative History”. But that doesn’t mean that after this, I won’t be doing
anything. It just means that after that, something new will begin again.
She tells me that I will become like the Faceless Men in the series Game
of Thrones — nothing, no one, faceless. I say, “I understand you.” And she
says that this is what I am becoming. Then she tells me that I am one of the
pillars, that there are certain people who act as pillars upon which the entire
world rests, and I am one of them. She tells me:
— How can you, Alex, be afraid of anything or worry about yourself,
if you are one of the pillars? Nothing can ever happen to you unless it is
meant to happen.”
That is what else she told me. Furthermore, when I was recounting the
entire path I had traveled, and she heard about how I descended into the
underworld and managed to get back out, I saw her start thinking about
someone — as I understand it, some acquaintance of hers who is currently
in the underworld. She began asking how I got out and what I did. I started
listing all the methods, and then I said, “But it’s all in the book, in the fourth
volume of the novel “Alternative History”.” She turned directly to Masha
and said, “Masha, you have this book, give it to me.” I saw an almost frantic
level of interest in Valentina to take all this information in order to save
someone and pull them out of the underworld.
I also saw what the Spirit was indignant about regarding Valentina.
I will record this in the book as well, and I don’t feel like I’m crossing
any boundaries. I believe — or rather, the Spirit believes — that since she
didn’t hear it the first time, I need to emphasize it directly in the book so
everyone knows her mistake. That way, if she ever comes across this book
again, she will have to think about it one more time. The Spirit was outraged
that for many years she has been picking up these “scruffy losers” men —