said Lis. “Did this son of God also carry out missions among people in a human body?”
“You don’t understand anything in this, don’t meddle! You have your Black Gods, they are given to you, don’t meddle in the world of dark and light.”
“Well, yes, we are mice. We don’t understand the life of higher beings,” said Lis. “Did you create us just to fuck? Well, then you could have made more holes! Or is it just your personal orientation to fuck people, while others, over there, create artificial demons?”
“Yes,” Nikto snapped, “sing, mice, dance, amuse me! Do you see, Lis, that I have not done anything to you, as I promised, neither to you, nor to Karina, you will no longer be afraid to enter my limit?”
“Maybe you erased our memory,” objected Lis, “you always do that. We don’t know how much time has passed, and where we really were and what we were doing. We are not supposed to know this!”
“You are alive, well, say thank you for that too.”
“Thank you.”
“Let's go to the Estate. Only one day has passed here.”
Pulling his lame leg, Nikto walked slowly towards the exit, and his “mice” followed him…
Chapter two
After the Limit
Lis entered the room saturated with the acrid smell of all kinds of “restoratives” and saw Nikto sitting by the mirror. In the twilight and in some kind of stupor, he, looking at his reflection, was concentratingly pricking a strange sign on his forehead.
“What are you doing! What the fuck!” Lis literally threw Nikto away from the mirror, black paint flowed down the bridge of Nikto’s nose. On his forehead was a symbol that Lis couldn’t understand.
“This is the edge,” Lis groaned, “my strength is gone!” He looked at dumb Nikto, whose eyes were completely blank.
“What are you doing, who have you become, you are insane! Call your khabir, let him put you in order!”
“What for?” Nikto drawled.
“What for?!”
“My only desire, Lis, is to get stoned with all sorts of trash, then pass out, and when I wake up, get stoned again.”
“That scares me,” said Lis. “You look like Squint-Eye now, in your self-destruction. Fuck, you have such great abilities!”
“Abilities? What do you know about my abilities?! They took everything from me, I have nothing!”
“Nik, please,” asked Arel plaintively, who was sitting on the floor, “let me console you, let me touch you.”
“O-oh!” Lis drawled. “Another madman. You're scaring me, this has gone too far. You will die before we make any attempt to go east! You, Nikto, don’t want, and this one,” he looked contemptuously at Arel, “this one I even don’t mention!”
“I will do everything Lis, I don’t want, but I will do everything,” Nikto said wearily.
“Damn, at least put yourself in order to begin with,” Lis snapped displeased. “You're already swollen from the endless drugs. Take care of your body a little!”
Instead of answering, Nikto pulled the chain, allowing Arel to climb onto the bed.
“I didn’t allow you to talk,” he said, and several times, briefly, but tangibly, hit Arel on the face, head and ribs with his fist. Arel wheezed, barely holding back.
“He's already blue, stop it!” Lis shouted.
Nikto didn’t react, but instead took the rope, thrust it into Arel's mouth, passing it between the remaining teeth, tightened it with all his might, tying it at the back so that the rope dug into his face and didn’t allow him to close his mouth. Arel groaned, trying to crawl away, the wide steel collar didn’t let him to bend his head properly, digging into the skin under his chin.
“Send him back to your limit,” Lis couldn’t resist, “let him wait for you there! He distracts you.”
“No,” Nikto said.
“Nik, pull yourself together! Are you a Demon or who?!”
“I am nobody,” Nikto said slowly in syllables, “I don't want anything, Lis. Hush, hush,” he winced, “just don’t start yelling, I will do everything.”
“You can do it already now, you can do more and better! You do the minimum, in a slipshod manner. Without soul. Get out of the body then, I’ll do it faster with Karina’s brother than with you. It seems to me that he will really be more useful now!” Lis gripped his stomach, wincing. “Fuck, my stomach will die from endless nerves now.”
“You have holes in your stomach,” Nikto said.
Pale Lis was holding his stomach with both hands, waiting for the attack to pass.
“Go away for the sake of your gods,” he whispered, “leave the human, we will do everything ourselves.”
“He's blind,” Nikto retorted.
“You're no more sighted,” Lis looked skeptically at the swollen eye of Nikto on the side of the inflamed scar.
“For the sake of your gods,” Nikto mimicked him. “I am your God!” He tried to laugh, but coughed hoarsely: “Unclean warriors will not listen to you yet, Fox, only to me. You are not yet an authority for them.”
“Well, what for do I have it?!” Lis groaned, he let go of his stomach and grabbed his head. “Why am I always unlucky?!”
“I'll do everything, Lis,” Nikto drawled, “just fuck off now, okay?” He with some unhealthy expression on his face pulled Arel by the chain.
“No!” Lis shouted. “Enough! I'll take him from you, this damn prince has made you crazy. You don't want to think of anything but him.”
Nikto buried Arel's face in his crotch.
“Fuck, unhook from him!” Fox couldn’t resist.
“Ver! Ver!” He shouted, and Verniy, oddly enough, appeared on the threshold.
“Ver, I ask you, if you truly love your master, help him get out of this state,” Lis pleaded.
Ver gazed dispassionately at the stoned Nikto, as if he had not seen his sunken dull eyes, festering scar and tangled hair.
“He, along the way, can't wait for you to die,” said Lis disappointedly, “only I don't like it. Only I am worried about you.”
“Ver,” said Nikto aloud, “stir up something from the stomach for Lis. He's bleeding inside there.”
“Fuck,” drawled Lis. Nikto knocked Arel over on his back, lay down on top of him with his whole body, kissing with cracked lips, Arel was moaning, arching towards him.
“Animals, you are animals!” Lis stood up. “I'm leaving. I'll be back tomorrow morning.”
“Ver
