you’re a sister. Baba Yaga happens only in fairy tales. And now sit on the stool quietly, I’ll look around the whole room,» Dima said quietly.
There was a spoon, a knife and a metal bowl on the table, in which there were two dried pieces of black bread. There was still a jug. Dima looked into it there was water, but the smell came from it very unpleasant.
There was no bed in the room, there were rags lying around and someone’s old coat was also lying in the corner.
«Don’t worry, dear sister, we won’t be lost… everything will be fine,» Dima whispered softly, and began to study the gloomy room.
The house was old, and the boards in it were very rotten in places. Dima looked around the room and realized that there could be a tunnel in one place, the boards were especially rotten on the floor and in the wall.
He collected all the items that were in the room and could help him for the upcoming work.
It took several hours to make a hole in the wall of the house.
«Let’s run,» Dima whispered softly in his sister’s ear. – Follow me.
He crawled through the crack, kicking out the remaining rotten board with his foot, and he and Anya crawled out.
– What is that sound there? – a woman’s cry was heard after him.
Then there was the click of the lock at the door to the room and again her scream:
– Oh, you little brats wanted to escape from me.
The brother quickly took his sister’s hand as tightly as possible, and they ran forward as fast as they could. A narrow path led into the thick of the forest and the forest was not going to disperse, but only became more and more dense. Dima began to see all sorts of fabulous animals, they stood along the path and followed them with a friendly look. It seemed to him that one of them shouted after them:
– Run straight and don’t turn off!
A few hours later, an old, dilapidated house appeared in front of the guys in the middle of the forest.
«Let’s go there,» Dimka exclaimed joyfully and took his sister’s hand.
– Probably Baba Yaga’s sister lives there – - the girl said with sadness in her voice.
– No. «Probably the forester lives here,» Dima said thoughtfully – «But let’s look into it?»
– I’m afraid. Suddenly there’s a witch sitting there or a goblin. Dima, I realized where we are,» Anya said softly.
– And where is it? – What is it?» he asked.
– I’ll tell you in your ear so that they won’t hear us, – Anya said very quietly.
Dima leaned closer to his sister. And she says:
– In a fairy tale, we are in a fairy tale, you know?
– Even if we got there with you, we should also meet positive characters. They will tell us the way or lead us out of the dense forest themselves.
– Well, let’s go to this house then. Suddenly there’s a kind dwarf living there,» the girl already chirped happily.
The gloomy house turned out to be completely empty and lonely in the wilderness. The inhabitants, if they lived in it, lived for a very long time. In the living room, a table made of planks and several chairs met their travelers.
– Let’s sit for a while and go back to look for our village and our house, – said Dima in a cheerful voice.
– OK. But just let’s look for water. Maybe she’s here somewhere?
Dima left his sister at home, and he went in search of a stream or remnants of rainwater. Or maybe it was left by travelers. The search was not useless, and the guy brought a pot of water.
– It’s great – - said Anya and began to drink water greedily – - It’s delicious, try it.
Suddenly the door creaked and someone entered the house.
It was a tall and slightly stooped figure that was moving straight at the guys. Already a little closer you could see a man with a small beard and a black mustache.
– Children? What can children do here?
The guys looked at each other and looked at him in fright.
– We… We are resting here,» Dima replied.
– Which village will you be from? And why did you come here? «is it getting warmer?» he asked.
But the boy did not have time to answer anything, suddenly a woman they already knew, whom Anya called baba Yaga, entered the house.
«These are my babies – » she said. – Let’s go home, bunnies, you haven’t eaten anything. Come on, I’ll feed you.
The guys tensed up and Anya immediately snuggled up to her brother.
– Uncle, take us away from here, please, we are lost – - she wailed plaintively.
«We are not her children,» Dima replied and looked at the man.
The woman stood next to them and began to cry quietly.
– The mother will not be recognized. How so,» she said in a whisper with tears.
The man grinned and said:
– Well, what kind of mother are you, what were you thinking up here? I recognized you.
– Do you know her?» Dima was surprised.
The man pulled out a chair and sat down on it stretching his long legs.
– Everyone who watches TV knows her. Honey, why did you run away from the fourth psychiatric hospital in Moscow?
– I don’t want to go there anymore… I don’t want to understand, they treat me badly there – - the woman screamed and ran to the exit.
The man turned out to be a hunter who was just passing by and, for the happiness of the children, went into the house to rest. He took the children home on the same day. Later, Dima began to search for information on the Internet about this woman and found it.
It turns out that she has been on TV for two years, they say that she is not only crazy, but also dangerous. In those parts where Dima and Anechka were lost, five more children went missing and were not found.
Did they catch baba Luba or is she still wandering through the forest, Dimka didn’t know that. But he learned very well the lesson that he should not go far from home into the forest and he also realized how defenseless his little sister is. Therefore, he must necessarily protect her and not only in childhood, but always protect her.
«That’s the story you just told me,» Ivan exclaimed.
