#2 RING OF FIRE

It was a very dark night. The moon was behind clouds and the stars were not shining at all. It was so gloomy that it was not possible to see anything. Some figures were gathered in a perfect circle and waited without a sound for something that should happen. It was too murky to say whether it was an open landscape or just a garden behind a house. However, it was for sure that these figures were standing outside.

One of the figures clapped twice and suddenly a fire came out of nowhere in the middle of the circle. Now you could see some faces hidden under white hoods of tunicas. It was still very dark and it was still not possible to recognise anyone. There were 30, maybe 40 shapes who built this circle and everyone was focused on what happened in the middle of it.

A very old figure of a man with white hair and trembling hands and looked to the top. He stood in the middle near to the thinly stream of fire and suddenly above the tongue of the fire appeared a ball of flames. The old man bowed himself and took some earth into his hands, and then he diffused what he had in hands over the ball of flames. Suddenly the ball changed its structure and became solid and strong. It looked like a small version of the globe, but it was made just from the soil. Then the old man stretched his hand and from nowhere he took a wee bottle, he opened it and five drops of water came out of it. They dripped directly on the solid ball and mixed with the earth. Everyone could see that the ball became a real miniature of globe with oceans and seas and continents on it.

Then the old man captured some air with a rapid movement of his hand and directed the wind on the ball over the fire. In addition, the little globe started to rotate.

Everyone was looking quietly and without any emotions at this ritual.

The old man bowed a little to see better, what was happening on the little globe. Others stayed covered under their white tunicas.

-Brothers and sisters. – whispered the old man and was still focused on the globe. - There will be a great war that will make the humanity much weaker than it was ever before. There is a sea of blood and sufferance. There will be emptiness and hopes will be broken. Moreover, after the end of destruction and mass murders the humanity will recover itself and will rise like a phoenix from the ashes. Moreover, a boy will be born and this boy will lead us a step closer to the one whom we are still searching for.

Everyone was still focused on the old man. They observed him very watchfully and listened to his every word with the highest attention.

-It will be in a land between Russia and Germany. – spoke further the old man and tried to look closer at the tiny globe. – Who will help the old man to read the signs? After the question was asked, one person came out of the circle and stepped closer to the old man.

- Julian, thank you. Here, look here. – The old man pointed with a trembling finger at a piece of the little globe.

Julian’s face was better to see when he bowed above the fascinating creature of fire, earth, water and air. Julian was looking quite young: every human would approximately calculate his age for 20, maybe 25 years. He had sapphire blue eyes and short hair, which was blowing in the wind. He was taller than the old man was and had to bow himself much more to see what the old man was showing.

-It is a city which is completely destructed, it’s a city which will be rebuilt by human hands and which will stay the capitol after the war ends.

Julian was looking at the globe and saw a small city, which was destroyed by all means, there were airplanes which dropped bombs on it, there were soldiers who were throwing garnets and there was fire and sufferance everywhere. These pictures looked like a movie or rather like a tiny living model of the city.

-It is Warsaw. It has to be Warsaw. – Julian said without doubts.
-Poland? – The old man kept silent for a while and added then:
–Eastern Europe will play a great role not only for humans. Would you mind to take this task on you? – asked the old man and put his hand on Julian’s shoulder.
-I will be there. – said convinced Julian.
-Good, but don’t be too fast, you have some years until it happens and if you would like to, you can stay here until the war is over. – The old man was smiling friendly.

Then the tiny globe rotated faster and faster and exploded. The bang was undersized and the earth and the pieces of air with water fell on the flame of fire and doused the fire.

It was a very dark night and it was not possible to see anything.



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