Maria discovers her forces
by Spectator 2
A young girl notices she has very special abilities


Maria shouted "catch me " to her nanny Lola. It groaned. It was no easy job to
look after this malicious five-year-old. In addition, Lola still had to pay
attention that Maria did not damage her clothes. A long rock was for catch
play and on tree climbing possibly unsuitably and always it could not make the
mistress's daughter, stay at home and be well-behaved. Maria shot around the
corner. Their feet hardly seemed to touch the ground and her rock clearly
lifted. Their black hair wildly flew by the air. Lola sighed and ran behind,
however, the distance became bigger and bigger. Not only was the lady already
as big as they, she was also stronger and quicker, and since she had found out
this, she showed it the whole day. Lola knew that it would come once, but had
it to be so soon? Maria turned round and grinned when she saw coming the nanny
bit by bit from the puff. She accelerated once more, then she suddenly brought
up the arms and pushed off with the feet. Her blouse went baggy to the back,
while she was rising upwards. There suddenly the blouse tore and two immense
wings appeared. Maria rose in the air, further flew in the same direction,
then she turned, climbed up and rushed down briefly behind Lola. " Here I am,
hello! ", she shouted and stretched her foot against Lola. The nanny reached
for it, however, Maria pulled it away as quickly as a flash and rose with a
flapping of wings higher into the air. Just so high that her feet were beyond
the reach of Lola's to arms, even if this jumped, she circled round the girl.
" Show sometimes! I can fly! Are you able to do this also? ", she shrieked
enthusiastically and, as if it had used one more proof of her ability, she
rests at an angle upwards against the sun.

Lola sat down exhausted. She had to say this to the mistress. One thing was
clear: If Maria could even fly, she was above her. There it was in the
comparison a little thing that the blouse was completely tore and the lady
walked around half-naked or flew. However, in this time the mistress held
after-lunch sleep and the master was out. She had to hope that the girl would
land sometime. Maria looked down on the goods of her parents from about 1000
ulnae. From the mountain which was called Monte Alba up to border of the
primeval forest belonged to them all and all people who lived here, worked for
them. Maria thought that she had to get to know all that. Only for one week
she's been knowing that she could fly and for five days she has been able to
co-ordinate her movements in the air as well like on the earth. Up to now she
had kept secret it, however, several times she had already looked around from
the air. She found it lighter to orientate herself so as on the earth. She had
the plan of the gigantic Hacienda almost in the head. She more exactly looked
and to her it seemed, as if everything became bigger: The palace with his
houses and gardens, his fountains whose rushing she still heard up here and
the avenue through which sometimes the guests went in carriages. She paid
attention to individual parts and looked for Lola. There she sat and did not
look at all in the sky. Under the palace position the fields on which maize,
coffee and sugarcane was grown. Behind her palace pastureland began. She more
exactly looked single cows and sheep and then looked again at the panorama. At
the end of the pastureland the primeval forest began and there she heard a
beating. Some men stood in a tree and hit with an object against it. What did
this have to do? She proceeded in the sinking and wanted to ask the men,
however, there it occurred to her that she was naked. Thus she flew instead of
this to the inner courtyard of the palace. Their window was open and nobody
watched her. Great, so she was able to go for a blouse without being noticed.

First of all she had succeeded in spreading out the wings without tearing a
garment. Easier it was, so much she had already found out to draw the blouse,
while the wings were already spread out. Now exactly this did them and floated
anew dressed from the window. Up to the primeval forest there were five miles
and Maria flew carefully not to tear a blouse again. Still she made it in
twenty seconds. She had run the distance already once, there she had done in
the same time only half. She circled about the men who looked surprised
upwards. Besides, she more exactly watched: The men sawed in the trees, until
these fell down. Then they beat off with the heavy iron hammering the branches
and lifted the trunks on a carriage. Besides, they sweated dreadfully. Maria
could not understand all that. The trunks were not much thicker than the tree
which Lola had split once when she had refused to climb down. At that time she
could not fly yet and had just still got to fall on the feet. Yes, Lola had
had to exert herself, but so strongly was not Lola - in the arm pressure Maria
had already defeated them. She landed beside the men. " What do you do there?
Nevertheless, this goes much easier! ", she noted precocious. The men gave a
laugh according to. " Want you to saw sometimes, girl?", one asked, a big,
strong black. Maria reached to him only up to the chin and with his athletic
arms he looked like the strength in person. He gave her the axe in the hand in
the expectation that this strange being could not even properly swing them. "
I do not need", played the flute Maria, packed a tree with her hands and tore
it from the ground like other a blade of grass. Then she tore off the branches
and roots. " Hey you flying forest mind, you can help us!", mocked the black,
while the others were getting a fright. " Can you also do smooth surfaces? "

This could be hardly heavier than to press one stone level. No, it was much
easier. Maria pressed her palms against the butts and the surfaces were as
level as sawed ones. She raised the tree and carried it along the way, as if
it was a light floor. On the big wooden heap she put down it. " Thus one does
this! " Now the black also got a fright. " This is the devil! ", somebody
shouted. " Who? I? One does not say this! ", shouted Maria furiously. She knew
that the devil was something quite bad and wanted to punish the insults. She
hit the man with the fist in the belly - not especially strongly, but he flew
hundred ulnae by the air and broke several bones. The men fell on the knees. "
Please - leaves us! Do not hit! " " Well! I leave you! But my father should
let other not fell the trees, such weaklings like you! ", she answered
leniently. " Adios! " Carefully she pushed her wing attempts upwards, after it
had opened the upper buttons of her blouse. Thus she could stretch her wings
from the enlarged collar opening. Uff! This time the blouse had remained
whole. Maria floated above the palace and looked for Lola, however, it had to
have gone in, in the meantime. She more exactly looked once again and suddenly
there disappeared the walls and roofs and they a chaos from stone, wood and
metal saw. She flew down and heard crashing a little bit. When she looked, she
found out that she had bumped with the fist against the railing of the loggia
in the inner courtyard and had destroyed it. She landed on the ground when
suddenly her mother stood beside her. The mother had stepped together with
Lola from the door and looked at Maria sharply. " Girl what you have done? "
if she asked disapproving. Besides, she saw Maria firmly in the eyes. Maria
wanted to say first nothing, however, then she admitted that she had been in
the primeval forest. From her small demonstration of strength she said
nothing.

" No, you cannot fly! Nobody can fly! All imagination! " if said the mother
with steady voice. Maria was sure that she had flown, however, the more often
the mother the sentence repeated, the more the girl doubted this. Maybe she
had really only dreamt. Had she not always longed for coming to the primeval
forest? The next day she still thought of the strange dream that she had
flown. But how should this go? Nevertheless, she had not got suddenly wing?!
She could still remember that she had broken the loggia in the fall flight.
She saw from her room window: In the loggia was no damage. No, she had
certainly only dreamt. The next days ran as usual, that is like days had run,
before Maria had learnt to fly. Indeed, she often was well in her room and
read - she could read, although it was informed only recently now and then,
quite rather liquidly and write and also count well. However, in between she
also played with Lola Hiding and sometimes she tried to escape from her. She
remained quicker than the maidservant and caught Lola over and over again,
while she had no chance. Once Maria escaped in the direction of river. Before
the fruit plantations the mountain dropped precipitously. Maria had it anyhow
in the head that this was in such a way, although she was never away so far
from home, however, ran as them faster than the quickest horse down, she
overlooked the embankment and fell about that.

She rowed with the arms when it lay in the air and suddenly the ground seemed
to go away. There she felt something in her back. She turned round and saw
that her wing had grown. She hit with it and climbed up. Now she also saw more
clearly: No, she had not dreamt, she could really fly. She floated about the
fruit plantations, higher rose, about the river up to Monte Alba whose
brilliantly white rock wall looked at close range cleft. She saw men carrying
boxes down the slope. There it became also clearer to her: She could lift such
boxes in which the men struggled under a load playing, also as she could tear
out primeval forest trees. She flew even higher, over the summit of Monte
Alba, saw the wide land which did not belong any more to her parents and in
the horizon the sea. The gigantic palace of her parents looked from this
distance like a toys small house and the people were not to be recognised at
all. However if she exactly concentrated. Now she saw even faces. Then
suddenly she saw only the scenery, without details. She tightened her wings in
parallel and whizzed on the palace. There she suddenly heard something. She
had not counted on it. " What do you do there? ", she heard the strict voice
of her father. As from Nothing he suddenly appeared beside her. Also he had
wing, also he flew. There the mother was also with him. Maria tried to make
way, however, the father was quicker and packed them in the arm. " I think,
now we fly once in our moated castle below on the river. At the moment nobody
is there and there we can clear something ", he said. He let go Maria,
however, she had no other choice than to fly between her parents. The gate of
the moated castle opened. The father landed and entered. Maria was surprised a
little bit because nobody seemed to be there who had opened it. They went to
the hall and sat down to a table. " What have I done? May I not fly? ", asked
Maria surprised, when she saw the strict faces of the parents. " You may fly,
but you must know the one: The least people are able to do it. You have
noticed that Lola is not able to do it - and the workers aren't, either ",
said the mother. Maria nodded. She had the amazed faces of the workers still
in the mind. " We must tell her everything ", the father said to the mother.
She nodded and spoke: " Our forefathers do not come from the earth. You know,
there are still many, many other stars. Our forefathers come from a star which
is called " the black planet " ". Maria sat there with open mouth. " Once our
forefathers accepted the figure of the people of the earth ", the father
continued. " They flew here, onto the earth and found out that they had here
the best conditions. This sun was good for them and the people were to them by
far put under - in all. They took land in possession and killed people. They
could easily have become rulers of the earth. " " There are even more people
like us? ", asked Maria. " This is just the problem ", answered the mother. "
They were much stronger, some estimate, million times - that is a thousand
times a thousand times - stronger than the people, they could fly and nothing
in the world could injure them, but as on the black planet also was here our
curse that we sometimes lose the control of ourselves.

" What does this mean? " " Suddenly we kill people from pure pleasure. And
because the people did not offer enough opposition, our forefathers killed
each other ", said the father sadly. " All my brothers have died in such
fights and I doubt that there are except for us pure-blood black planetarians
on the earth - everything about whom I knew, are dead. Therefore, we have,
your mother and me, to us resolved to renounce our forces, as far as we can.
Today we have flown both for the first time for many years when we saw flying
you ... "

" This isn't right, Pedro! ", interrupted the mother. " You fly every spot if
you notice that it gets you, in all out. And I also. And you, my love, should
know one: We want that you disengage of no day. And, therefore, we must pay
attention. Have you already had once the feeling that you wanted to break
something? " Maria shook the head. " You can destroy almost everything here!
Therefore: Pay attention to you! ", admonished the mother. " And it must not
know everybody with whom he deals. There are legends about our forefathers,
even if we have extinguished the precise recollections. Lola knows who we are,
but least others. Therefore, look not to show not too conspicuously your
forces. Fly so high that one does not exactly recognise you. You'll see,
nevertheless, almost everything. You'll also see, like strongly - or how weak
- the people are. Do not point too exactly, around how much you are stronger!
And one thing: Be well-behaved and obey also Lola, but my next attack will go
against you! " Maria nodded; she was afraid; if was right what the mother
said, this warning was dangerous.

" Pay attention! ", said the father, got up and raised with a finger the
heavy, eight ulnae long oaken table. " And now you! " He led Maria's hand in
the middle of the table and let go. Maria felt how the table slipped off,
however, she got it, nevertheless, firmly to touch. She lifted it over her
head. " Well! What do you mean how many people are necessary to lift this
table? ", asked the father. Maria twitched with the shoulders. " From eight to
ten! In order to lift I say, not for carrying! And look at it! " He pulled out
a gun and shot a hole in the table with it. " You know, every person is dead
if him such a bullet hits. And now look exactly! " He shot himself to the
shoulder. The bullet bounced off and hit in the cover. Then he shot at her.
The ball met Maria in the arm, tore a hole in her blouse, banged on the upper
part of the father's body back and from there on the mother's hip, before it
sank at the other end of the room on the ground

. " To you is clear how strong you are for a human being! So: As little as
possible ones should notice it and nobody may die - except it is about your
life. Is this clear?! " Maria nodded. Maria obeyed her parents. They allowed
her for it, at noon, during the siesta, and in the evening the mealtime in
each case a round flight to get to know the Hacienda more exactly. Maria saw
more and more work routines and learnt to estimate the strength and the
abilities of the people properly. To Lola she was well-behaved, however, it
surprised them that Lola was stronger around a lot than other people - even if
much weaker than her or her parents. Nobody answered the question, why it was
so; the parents explained, this is a chance, however, Maria it struck that
Lola could lift a trunk without bigger problems in which four or five strong
men struggled under a load. To the Maria's sixth birthday a dwarf came to the
house. " I would like to take measure from the Miss! " She could select her
new dress herself and chose a pink-coloured material. The dwarf was big only
well one ulna, so that Maria had to sit, so that he could reach her shoulders.
She was very glad about the dress and got to know from the mother which
circumstance had it with it: " I am fed up with it that you destroy a blouse
with every second round flight. This dwarf does clothes which do not tear -
also not if you fly faster than the wind. And, in addition, the dress has
slits by which you can put your wings. "

To Christmas Maria got a ring which had likewise confidential forces. " You
have noticed that you can see through walls ", explained to her the father. "
Our senses are developed a lot more than those of the people, however, it is
our problem that we see too much all at once. This ring enables to you to
concentrate your eyes and ears exactly upon a point. Thus you always see
whether an obstacle is before you, however, can see also behind it if you
want. " Really Maria with this ring if she concentrated could see every space
of the palace single. She could put it on distance and see the folds of Monte
Alba or recognise on nearness footprints of a person, even on rock. She could
also concentrate upon a person, and if she turned the ring, her eyes walked,
until she had found this person.

The forbidden tree and the midget uprising

It had become April and now Maria was 6,5 years old. Ten months it was that
she had discovered that she could fly. She had grown around something. Lola
who had been one year ago even bigger than her just reached to her up to nasal
point and also many men who worked on the lands, were already smaller than
her. She reached to their mother already almost up to breast and also her
father clearly about belly height. The parents laid value on the fact that she
learnt a lot. Maria owned many books and sometimes read one or more during one
day. She could already read in ten seconds a side, as fast as Lola. However,
she also played with pleasure shuttlecock with the maidservant. Lola was
quick, but Maria was quicker and had better reactions. Only seldom she had to
fly to get a ball and mostly Lola did at most from three to four points a set.
What Maria liked, however, still best, was to fly over the lands and by means
of her sharp eyes and ears, watch everybody from several miles of height

For a long time she did not annoy any more Lola with the fact that she could
fly. If they played to catch, she renounced voluntarily it, just as she if
Lola hidden consciously by the walls did not look. Nearly she would have
forgotten Lola's strength, however, then it happened more by chance that it
was reminded of it: On one of her round flights she saw a stonecutter which
built a statue of her father. The athletic man sweated and hit long with the
hammer on the blocks, until the features were visible., Why not make statue of
mine? ' thought the girl and flew to Monte Alba. There she took one of the
gigantic boulders and carried it to the river where she could see her image in
water. She hit with the hand on the stone, however, it broke under her
strength. Damn! She got a new stone block and flew this time back to the
palace, because the siesta was to an end. She saw Lola sitting before the main
building and said: " Show, I make a statue of mine! " She started to work and
the stone broke again. " If it is hot, it is better, Miss Maria! "

, Lola threw, the uncompleted piece with the hands rubbed and pressed it again
the block. Maria warmed the stone likewise with the hand formed the granite
block as easily as other children gum. After half an hour a full-size statue
glittered brightly. " Great done! ", praised Lola. " Where do we put them? "

" Maybe to the fountain! There stand quite other and there one can see them
well from the terrace ", Maria suggested. " I believe, this is too wide. Allow
to try! " said Lola and carried the statue there. In the internal park nobody
who did not belong to the family was allowed to go around and thus they did
not risk being seen. Indeed, the statue was smaller than the other figures in
the well, because it shone, however, brightly because the granite had become
in Maria's hands which were far harder than diamond a shining mass, one
recognised them, nevertheless, from the terrace clearly. The next day Maria
observed by chance how some men lifted a figure which should be repaired on a
carriage. The figure was a little bigger than her self-portrait and six men
groaned under the load. How could Lola only carry such a figure? Nevertheless,
Lola was no child of the black planet like they, or, was she? When she asked
Lola, that answered that she had no supernatural forces. "Yes, I know, I am
quite strong for a girl. But, nevertheless, you know yourself, that I am a lot
much weaker than you or your parents. " Maria did not know exactly whether
Lola lied, but she decided to look more exactly at her. Up to now it had made
no difference to Maria what Lola did if she was not with her. Now, however,
she directed daily several times her searching look at Lola and made a find,
in the end, in the evening once. It was after the dinner and Maria should be
actually for a long time in the bed. She was sitting in her room and looking
out. There she suddenly discovered Lola's footprints. They were fresh if she
was not mistaken. Maria concentrated upon Lola and in tenth of seconds she had
her. Lola went along alone a way in the direction of the wood. Now she entered
the wood which was pitch-dark at this time and four miles away, however,
Maria's eyes could recognise not only on a distance of four miles the same
details as directly before herself, she was also able to do themselves also
Then she listened. Obvious the maid did not want to be recognised. Of course
she did not anticipate she was observed from a distance in which she herself
would not even have seen a person, never mind would have recognised. Lola came
to a clearing and Maria recognised that the clearing had walls around. Why had
this never struck her up to now? Otherwise, nevertheless, she had looked every
detail from the air. Lola unlocked a door and stepped on the clearing in the
middle of which single trees stood. She shook one of it, ate from the fruits
and went back. What mysterious tree might this be that he stood on a barred
clearing and went Lola at night there? Should she ask? No, thought Maria,
nevertheless, Lola would not say the truth. She waited, until Lola appeared
after a tantalising long quarter of an hour again before the palace. Now it
was pitch-dark. Maria drew her indestructible dress, quietly opened her room
window and flew out. Even if Lola had looked upwards, nothing would have
struck her, because it was too dark for usual eyes and Maria had climbed up in
the shortest time so high that even an eagle eye would have had difficulties
to recognise her. An eagle eye maybe - but her parents had as good eyes as
her! As a precaution Maria looked down and by the roofs in the rooms of her
parents. They sat quietly at the table, read and didn't make a note of
anything. Maria considered her purpose and flew directly on it. In less than
one second she was in the purpose. Even if Lola or the mother should look
after her, at one minute she could lie again well in the bed. Maria had not at
all perceived the blasting when she broke through the sonic barrier at all, so
much she was fixed on the mysterious trees.

Even as she came to the wall which stood still in the last tree row, so that
she was also hardly visible from above, it was braked by an invisible
strength. She accelerated once more and felt how she was held on. Shadowy she
recognised a figure behind herself and saw how this became better and better
visible: Their father had followed her. -

" What do you search here in this time? ", he strictly asked. -

" I thought ... I mean.... Nevertheless, Lola was there - and why are these
trees between walls? " - " I will explain this to you later. Now you come
along. And notice to you: Here you have lost nothing! " - " Why? " - " Because
I forbid it to you! " - " nevertheless, but the other fruit I may also eat. "
The father took a deep breath and a tongue of flame shot up from his mouth. He
looked in the direction of palace. Maria looked in the same direction and
recognised that her mother gave a sign. - " Then I explain aviation we back,
to you everything! " - " Get I then what of the fruits? " - " No. And after
you will understand why. " The tone admitted no contradiction. She followed
her father and both landed one second later in the drawing room where the
mother waited for them. " Sit down! ", the mother Maria requested unexpectedly
friendly. Maria obeyed. The parents had a look mutually. Then the father
began. - " Lola has told to us that you have asked again for the reason of her
strength. These fruits make people possibly a thousand times stronger -
indeed, only for a short time. " - " And I should not be stronger than Lola?!
", Maria burst out. -

" First of all, you should not interrupt me. With us the fruits look far less
strong, for it they have a side effect, the so-called strength shock. " -
"What is that?" - " We have told to you that there is moments at which we lose
the control of ourselves. And this is, above all the case when our strength
suddenly rises. This can happen if we eat human meat - what we do not do
anyway, but but our forefathers acted - and if we eat from these fruits. You
would maybe kill 10-spot stronger than before - in any case, in proportion to
that what you are stronger than the people, including Lola, not of the speech
worth - but if possible suddenly from fun hundred people - or even to us
attack. "-", nevertheless, there is not this! "-" I have experienced how my
brother has killed my father ", said the mother seriously. " Maria, this is no
fun. To the fact comes that you have even more supernatural abilities than you
up to now knows. " " Fires spit?! "; if Maria remembered the scene in the
wood. " For example! ", answered the father. " You can spit fire, but also
with ice-cold puff everything allow to freeze. Also from your eyes and your
hands energy can resign. Ordinarily you are able to do this only if you want
it - and a small tongue of flame which you blow in the air is not really
dangerous. With a strength shock - this has gone for myself once thus - you
suddenly burn a whole forest piece without noticing it. And, therefore: Finger
away from these fruits! " Maria really got fear of that what her parents told.
Thus she avoided the clearing with the trees in which the mysterious fruits
grew. She saw only occasional who might eat except Lola still of it: Only the
personal guards of her parents. Other workers got mixed only very seldom a
little bit of it in food if transports or woodwork had to be done fast. Deeply
in the primeval forest she tested once her fire breath. Ten unsuccessful
attempts were necessary, until a flame came. Although she had blown upwards, a
tree started to burn. First Maria had got a fright, however, then came to her
the thought that she could maybe blow out the fire what she also managed
really. After some days she controlled the fire breath just like she could
move on the earth and in the air easily. Months later, it was shortly before
her seventh birthday, she tried, nevertheless, once again to come to the
forbidden trees, however, again it was got by her father. There was this spot
a box on the ears, also when she tried it for the third time. For any reason
either her father or her mother seemed to look constantly there, so that she
had no chance. She would have to be invisible. - Invisibly? She had the
impression, her parents could make themselves invisible. If it was got, she
saw always first only contours in the air. She also sometimes saw flight
tracks in the direction of Monte Alba which did not come from her, however,
she saw there nobody. What was there there generally to see? Were there still
things behind Monte Alba? One day she put her look at view and recognised that
there human beings moved. No, they were even smaller than normal people. These
were dwarfs, as well as the man who took her measure of her flight clothes. To
the seventh birthday there should be a new one again, because since the sixth
birthday it had grown at least four inches or, as one recently said, ten
centimetres and now the old flight dress was real too briefly. Maria flew in
the direction of Monte Alba and examined the mountain exactly. With her X-ray
eyes she found out that it was swarming in it with dwarfs. She was not sure
what these did there. When she rose over the summit to look on the other side,
it was held on once again - this time from her mother, as she also recognised
again only bit by bit. " Here it does not go on, small lady! " This time
nobody explained to her the ban what it made even more curious. Every spot if
it came on the mountain became clear they got-, it was also the highest point
in a vicinity of thousands of miles, however, only one week of house arrest
stopped her investigation urge for three months. It was shortly before
Christmas when she dared again to fly about which Monte Alba. This time she
came unhindered on the other side. There was a gigantic steppe scenery and
Maria had to exert itself to recognise inhabited settlements at the other end
of the steppe with her telescope look. For her it was in the mountain the more
lively: Maria heard whirring like from insects and when she looked more
exactly, she discovered the contours of flying dwarfs. There it also was a
crash already. Hardly visible balls hit from all directions against her head,
her belly and her legs and rebounded again. It hurt, as if somebody is met by
a rubber. And suddenly these were thousands of these itchy floors. " Leave me
in peace! " she ordered, however, the answer was a new salvo. There she went
over to the counterattack: She flew in the cloud of invisible dwarfs, so that
these tore like cotton malice. When some others shot, obviously with bigger
bullets, she blew her fire breath against them, so that some burnt. The few
which remained fled to the mountain. Suddenly a boulder lifted - Maria had,
even with her microscope look, no door in the rock wall seen - and the dwarfs
reached in. She became more and more curious. How could dwarfs lift such a
gigantic rock? Nevertheless, she knew how weak people were. She flew for their
part to the rock, looked for a clutch and raised him. The rock hard weighed in
her hand, however, she could lift it aside. Behind the rock lay a whole row of
caves. The biggest one was about three ulnae, smallest only a little more than
one and a half ulnae high. Almost from all the intruder was fired, this time
with something liquid one, this burnt like stinging nettles - or how stinging
nettles would have burnt a normal person. Maria blew fire in a cave, she
directed her eyes upon another, so that a bright ray went out from them.
Several sharp shouts said to her that there were dead people. " Stop shooting,
then nothing will happen you! ", she ordered. " Who shoots, is dead! This is
no more fun. " From every cave ran or flew out dwarfs and raised the hands.
Now she heard only a shout. " Mistress, help us! " if somebody cheeped. Maria
looked in the direction from which she heard the shout. With her X-ray look
she saw by the rock walls. At the end of a cave somebody was caught. She flew
by the cave; it was one of the smaller and Maria carried away in the flight
the rock walls like a person who goes by a paper wall. Only the noise
indicated the hardness of the stones. Only after about hundred ulnae she felt
opposition. About two ulnae away from herself she saw an old dwarf with the
beard which was tied up with silvery shining threads. She crept in the cave,
tore the threads, got out the dwarf and put him before herself on the ground.
He was not big himself for a dwarf and reached to her only to briefly over the
knees. " Many thanks young mistress! I will never forget this to you! " if he
cheeped. Maria looked around. Some caves were properly developed to flats and
shone with the gold and silver of which her pieces of furniture existed. The
dwarfs from whom had lost a lot of her fear stood curiously around them. The
old dwarf ordered something and everything sank on the knees. What was wrong
here? " Young mistress ", cheeped the bearded dwarf, " I am the big magician
Tejuscha, man of this cave. Your Mr. Father defeated us years ago - I accept,
you are the daughter of man about the river, because no one can otherwise fly
or has such a big strength like you. We forge here clothes and jewellery and
many things which you see, have magic power. So also the magic belts which
multiply our strength. Also the ring in your right hand is from us. Rebels
have fallen me. I have given way them and has distributed the strength belts
which your father had ordered to my people and these are the thanks. They
wanted to become free - any more do not serve you. " " My father must find out
This! " " Young mistress, please, only this not! They can kill all rebel's
leaders if you want, but your father may not know that we can leave these
caves. They can require a reward of me, but please, please you do not betray
me. " Maria briefly considered. Then something occurred to her: " Is it right
that my father can make himself invisible? " "Yes", answered the magician. "
And your mother also. The invisibility is one of our oldest inventions. " - "
I would like to be able to make myself also invisible. Also before my parents.
" - " This will be difficult, because your eyes are so much better than those
of the people. But I will try it. And now, I ask everything to the loyalty
oath. Woe, somebody lies. I have activated the truth magic. " He repeated the
sentence in the Dwarvish. Thousands and thousands stepped forward and swore,
only a few refused, laid to him her coats and silver belts before the feet and
jumped down the rocks. Maria got a fright when she saw the suicides. " Leave
it! ", she ordered. The effect had not foreseen them. Hundred thousands knelt
down before her. " You are very merciful! Their father left with every sign of
opposition hundreds or had killed himself. " Maria could not believe this. "
My father hates it if one abuses his strength to kill innocent ", she
contradicted. " He does not kill from pure pleasure, this is right. And he
recompenses us for obedience. But still we are for him slaves and who is not
obeyed him deadly. And, therefore, it was so dangerous to leave the cave ",
said the priest. " Now I can also say to you something: The silver belts lend
the 1000-field to strength. A dwarf is as strong with this belt as hundred
people and can fly by means of the flight coat. Your nanny should get such a
belt and such a coat to be able to pay attention better to you! " Lola already
had a thousand times so much strength like normal people, with this belt... "
Would be she stronger then than me? " " I do not know it. A lot works on
person differently than on dwarfs. Probably only equally strongly. " Maria
resolved to pay attention. Should Lola soon carry a silver belt, she knew. She
said goodbye and demanded once again with stress the invisibility.

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