This is the first book of the series (of six books).
Excerpts from the book:
...The streets of Mokoshin, mostly built up with multi-storey typical buildings made of gray panels, were illuminated by the spring April sun. Or as the people called its 'Beautiful Golden Ra'. It touched with its golden rays the foliage of trees, green grass, buildings, roads and playgrounds.
In one of the houses, on the outskirts of the capital, in a girl's room with pale pink painted walls, an alarm clock rang. The owner of the room, sixteen-year-old Zima with identification number X-0-2212938-R0101, reluctantly woke up. At night, she had a bad dream: as if her older sister Vesna was falling into the abyss. After such a dream, the girl felt completely broken. However, she always woke up heavily in the morning.
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...Zima moved to the oven and opened the book. She saw the familiar illustrations. "I dreamed that I turned into the White Fox because I loved to watch illustrations for this fairy tale as a child?" The girl involuntarily thought, remembering her strange dream that she saw on that tragic day. Suddenly she realized that letters began to appear in the illustrations...
The letters formed into words written in the sister's familiar handwriting. Zima widened her eyes for a moment. "Heat developing ink?" she understood. "Vesna once told me that when she was looking for material for an article, she read about it in some book from the library archives... Did she really make them herself? And what did she write here?.."
The girl felt so amazed that she did not burst into tears, despite the bitter memories of her sister. She opened the book to the first page and began to read. And she read the following: "Dear Zima! If you are reading these words, then, most likely, I am no longer alive. I do not know how I will leave this world, but it will probably be so that I myself will not understand what is the matter when I start to die.
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...She went to the cat. This time he stood quietly in place.
"I want to help you! Why are you, stupid, running away from me?" the girl asked in displeasure, taking the fur ball in her arms.
Of course, she didn't expect to hear an answer. But suddenly, the cat, as if having understood her every word, pointed to the side with his paw. And the next moment, surprised Avril realized that she was standing in the middle of the fog.
"What?" she said in surprise. "Where did such a heavy fog come from?"
The girl looked around, but saw nothing: everything around was covered with a thick white veil.
"Mom? Mr. Claude?" she called her mother and the gardener-driver. "Where are you two?"
No one answered her.
"Mom? Mr. Claude?" Ms. Edelweiss was seriously scared.
"Meow!" the cat meowed.
He pointed his paw to the side again. Avril looked there and suddenly realized that the fog had disappeared, and she was in an unfamiliar place.
Avril was surprised to find that she was not standing in the garden near her house, but in a hall with high vaults and walls of white and silver stone. The columns propped up vaults, and the ceiling was decorated with intricate murals depicting magical formulas that the girl had never seen before. And in front, in the center of the hall, stood a silvery throne.
It was a simple throne, without unnecessary ornaments. Could even say that he looked very ascetic.
"Where am I?.." the girl asked in surprise.
Suddenly a voice rang out. It seemed to come from everywhere:
"You wrong! She doesn't belong here! She's not the type to be here!"
"Meow?" the cat meowed in surprise.
"Right, you were wrong," now the voice came from the direction of the throne."Can't you yourself see that she was originally not in the place where those whom you have to help are?"
"Meow!" in the intonation of the cat, as if an excuse for inattention was heard.
