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Middle of the night woke up from Tanais feeling of impending danger.
In the hallway, quietly creaking floorboards under someone's foot cautious.
Steps approached slowly and paused at the door.
Tanais gently pulled her hand, which was resting peacefully beloved head, silently stepped barefoot on the floor and hurriedly dressed.
However, as she crept to the door, the steps began to recede and soon died away completely.
Returning to the bed, Tanais began slowly to undress, but did not have time to remove his jacket, both from the corridor came a muffled cry, full of horror and inhuman torment.
From this cry color Tanais stirred hair, but in the next moment, she raced down the hall, pulling on his jacket as he ran.
The door to one room was open, and at the opposite end of the corridor flickered and disappeared into the dark silhouette. Tanais was rushed in pursuit, but, looking into the room, with both feet rooted to the spot.
On the floor a corpse floating in a pool of blood.
His face was unnaturally upturned, was distorted horrible grimace, from a huge hole in his chest a fountain blood, lay near his right hand a drawn sword, and next to him wildly pulsing some living lump.
Stepping over the threshold, Tanais bent over the corpse, wanting a closer look at the strange object, and the next moment recoiled with a curse.
This quivering, trembling lump on the floor was a human heart.
Behind came a faint rustle, and grabbed the sword from the floor, Tanais quickly turned around, ready to fight.
In the doorway stood trembling and pale landlord restaurant.
- Who was that? - Dropping the sword, I asked Tanais.
- It is better you do not know ... to leave here, and as soon as possible ... - trembling lips whispered the innkeeper, and his Babi's face was written the same horror as the corpse on his face.
Tanais took him by the shoulder and shook her gently, to bring to life.
- Do not be afraid to give his name. He will not be able to take revenge on you, because I'm going to kill him before.
- It is - not a man ... - barely audibly muttered the innkeeper. - They are Eidos.
- And what is still a beast?
- There is an old legend that in ancient times on this very spot was a huge temple of the pagan goddess. The ancient Cimmerians brought her victims and buried them right there, next to the temple. Then wild steppe Scythian hordes came and drove the Cimmerians out of the land, and the temple razed. When the Greeks founded their colony here and revived the cult of the ancient goddess. She resurrected those who brought her to the victim, so there Eidos, still referred to as "not dead". With them, you can not fight and can not win. For them, there is no death, because they have long been dead …
- Long time, I never heard such nonsense! - Tanais laughed, but her laughter sounded uncertain and ominous under the arches of the room where the shuddering in a pool of blood from the torn chest human heart.
- It is not nonsense .. I myself do not really believe in all this, I am not bought on the mountain this restaurant ... For some reason, most people die and disappear here ... Sometimes some time later! their mutilated bodies found in remote places, and sometimes they come back safe and sound, in some unknown way fabulously richer. The richest people of the city and its ruler - of those who one day mysteriously disappeared - and returned to the owner of the countless treasures. But although prihlebal winds around them more than flies around carrion, anyone who appreciates a little bit of soul salvation, eschews them like the plague ... I'm not born in this city ... Once I was young, healthy, beautiful , rich in love and the most wonderful girl in the world ... But one day, fate has turned against me, I was defamed, deprived of all property and thrown into prison, and my love, believing slander, married to the accuser ... The former owner of the restaurant was a good man, and saved my life when, after much wandering, barely alive, without any means of livelihood, I found myself in these parts ... He sheltered me, and when I recovered, I offered to buy his pub for a nominal fee. We shook hands, and soon after the deal, he went to Athens to study black magic, to find a spell that can expel from Eidos Parteniona, but since that time, and was gone ... I was ten years old I curse the day when the gods have deprived me of reason and I agreed to become the owner of this restaurant …
- Why did not you leave?
- Where? Where and to whom I want? .. And then, even in this terrible city people need something to eat and somewhere to spend the night …
- To be honest, I did not understand who are these Eidos …
- Do not worry, you will have the opportunity to get acquainted with them more closely ... only I were you I would not have sought it too …