Angel on earth

When Mikhail woke up, he found himself lying on the ground.Outside some of the broken windows the sky was gloomy, with cold rain mixed with ice and tangled in the wind.

It took a long time for the commotion from farther away to reach his ears.

Aaron was held in his arms, clutching the hem of his clothes, and slept a little restlessly, a snow-white blanket that was incompatible with the surrounding environment was messily wrapped around them.It's not so much him holding Aaron as it is Aaron holding him.His left arm was pillowed under the soft brown curly hair, and Aaron held his right arm tightly in front of his chest, covering the other half of his face with his palm, like holding a match that could bring a once-in-a-lifetime dream.

Aaron's warm breath swept over the palm of his right hand like a feather, flowing down his wrist and into his sleeve.The boy stared at him for a long time, gently scratched his cheek with his thumb, and tightened his left arm to bring him into his arms so that he could sleep more comfortably.

Resting his chin on the top of Aaron’s head, Mikhail felt something stuck in his chest. He quietly pulled out his right hand and took out the small picture frame hanging from the silver chain from his neckline. He silently fused the chain and lifted the picture frame. The box looks to the minor arcana card inside.

It was a family photo.

In the picture frame, a pair of tall and handsome young men and women stand on the river bank in autumn.The river was gurgling, the fallen leaves were flying, and the long pale golden hair of the two floated a few strands in the breeze.Ivan Kupala was holding the "Prayer of Chastity", and Kostroma was carrying a longbow and quiver, and each of them stretched out a hand and put it on the shoulder of Mikhail, who looked short and immature in the middle.

Offscreen, Mikhail looks at them, and they, too, smile and nod to him in the wind.Mikhail in the painting is only three or four years old, with short pale blond hair tangled in dead branches and leaves, in a mess, but he is holding a hare with air, and a basket of crimson cherries mixed with weeds is hanging on his elbow. He smiled so hard that his teeth could not be seen, and he was not reserved at all.

Mikhail himself was never allowed to laugh that way as a child, and there was nothing funny about it.

After looking at it for a long time, he gently put the small picture frame aside, and whispered, "Aaron."

He felt Aaron's heart beating faster and faster and his body temperature rising.But looking down, the young man still had his eyes closed, pretending to be asleep without changing his face.He couldn't help thinking about how many mornings and nights before this, Aaron tricked him like this with his empty chest, opening his eyes to see him after he fell asleep.

"Aaron, I'm sorry for worrying you so much." He said in a low voice, as if he was afraid of waking the other party, "I have done my duty. That is to say, I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. From now on, there is a crown of righteousness... laid up for you. It is kept for you.

"I know you are scared, but we still have a long way to go, there are still many interesting things in the world. You come to teach me, and I hope you will be... happy again.

"We've only just started and there's still a lot to do together... I'm confident I can beat them, but I'm sorry to make you worry, after all I also know now that 'confidence' isn't everything. I was thinking of you at the time, we didn't Go to the City of Oath to see the Crystal Palace, but I promised to take you to the Snowy Plateau. Now, I can finally give you flowers, and then taste the honey of the Urube tribe together. But if the 6000-meter-high Sacred Mountain of Zion collapses, I have to run around again, or you will hate me too. After the church razed the Milky Way Mountains, many people in Canaan fell ill because they did not adapt to the new climate, not to mention the three-year-long famine. If Mount Zion collapse, similar changes will occur, and when we get to the Snowy Plateau, maybe Urube and their flowers will no longer be there. You know, such small tribes have very poor resistance to sudden disasters ...

"Well... having said all that, I just hope you'll forgive me. I'm not begging for your forgiveness, Aaron, I'm saying... I hope you believe me. I don't know much about 'love', but Because of that...it's no longer possible for me to share this with anyone else."

Aaron moved in his arms, reaching up to his face to touch his squirming lips.

Mikhail stopped talking suddenly, and Aaron let his thumb stick into his mouth, pry open his teeth, and press down his tongue like a child with a cold.After a while, Aaron unbuttoned his messy clothes and kissed the dried blood on his shoulder.

Mikhail trembled, shyly tightened his arms and hugged him tightly, and said, "Aaron."

Aaron licked his neck and jaw, pushed back his robe and unbuttoned his trousers.So he couldn't think of anything else, he thought, since they left the Emerald City, they hadn't done it once.Create love, the love that the gods live on.

After having a heart, Aaron could no longer hide certain stress reactions. He would be out of breath, moan, cry, let his saliva flow down his chin in a daze, and even scream. Fa said "I love you, Mishenka" to him with ease like a grown-up.

After exchanging a shallow kiss with him, Aaron finally made a sound, whimpering and wrapping his limbs around him tightly.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid," said Mikhail hoarsely. "We're leaving today. I'm here, your Misha..."

Mikhail touched his lips one by one, careful not to crush him with too much force.But now, he slightly regrets the big words he uttered before: this matter itself does have some power, and Aaron, who has gained some flesh in the past three months, tastes much better than before, and sometimes he finds it difficult to control himself Go slow, take it easy, and don't get completely lost in the thing.

He secretly hoped that Aaron would put on a little more weight, at least up to a healthy standard.Probably no one knows what Aaron belongs to now, but since his heart beats and he needs to breathe, a healthy body can make him suffer less.Whenever the bony ribs touched him, Aaron would subconsciously back away, and Mikhail was always very sad.

"I can't take it anymore...Misha, don't be like this—ha——" Aaron kicked and kicked the air in embarrassment, and suddenly his waist and hips felt numb, and he couldn't use his strength, and his legs slipped limply, " I'm really... really out of breath... Mishenka!"

"Aaron." Mikhail's mind was in a mess, and he didn't listen to him for the first time. He pressed him stubbornly under the pillow and quilt, and put his lips next to his ear. Nor come back. We go to the Kaiser port to take a boat, pass Mizba and the Moon Islands, get ready at the Glazov port, ha... ha... I think... I want to see where you used to live. Avoid Open the hurricane sea area in the east, go south through the endless sea, and head east all the way after landing..."

Aaron let out a short sob from the depths of his throat, gave up struggling, opened a pair of beautiful green eyes, and stared blankly at the void in front of him without blinking. The black pupil in his right eye was so dilated that he called Can't see anything.

It wasn't until the light rain stopped and a dim ray of sunlight entered the room that the two reluctantly separated.It was only then that Mikhail discovered that they were in the monastery. This room was the guest room closest to the periphery. The building protected by spell reinforcement was more or less damaged in the previous battle of gods.

Outside, monks, nuns, and clergy of all ranks of the monastery ran past with dismal faces, and there were still people fighting and arguing not far away.Mikhail helped Aaron get dressed, covered his ears, bent over to him seriously, and said:

"Let's get some change of clothes, and go to the sept to get some, um, funds for the road. Hurry up before anyone else catches me."

Aaron could recognize his mouth shape, laughed out loud, and said hoarsely:

"Okay. I'll follow you."

His voice was still a little weak, and he didn't understand why Mikhail seemed to be taken aback when he hugged him, and his face turned pale.But he didn't ask, just urged Mikhail to kick open the door in a low voice, and steal a high priest's white robe for him; after all, he said, Aaron was the first high priest in the history of the church, who is more qualified than you Much older, Mikhail Ivanovich.

Mikhail found the clothes that fit him with ease, but did not change them in a hurry.He rolled his eyes, lowered his head and shouted happily:

"Aaron!"

Aaron froze for a moment, and suddenly realized that Mikhail wanted to do bad things.Some morally, religiously, very, very bad pranks.

He narrowed his eyes and smiled, raised his hand and remembered that he had lost his glasses somewhere, then put his hand down, hugged the pile of clothes and said, "What's the matter, Misha?"

Mikhail blinked: "We seem to have slept for several days, maybe you will want to take a bath."

Aaron let out a moan of disgust, and closed his eyes in pain: "Yes, yes, Misha. Why did you lick just now?"

"It was yours first." Mikhail said unconvinced, "Besides, I am the one who won't get sick. ——Don't talk about that, I heard from Anna that the basin in the church contains the first arrival The 'Original Holy Water' blessed by the Son. Let's use it up!"

As he spoke, he happily walked towards the sanctuary with his long legs.Aaron burst into laughter when he heard the words, looked at the void in front of him, and said with nostalgia: "You know, Misha? When I was in Chalek, I sold you the remaining bath water for ten gold coins a bottle." to the rich local people."

"My God!" Mikhail also laughed, "Didn't they bother you?"

"How come, you are here with me." Aaron closed his eyes and said proudly, "What's more, if it doesn't work, then their own beliefs are not pure, and they should reflect on themselves."

"But it's not all impious."

Aaron opened his eyes and said seriously: "I didn't lie to you about this: I originally wanted to bribe some residents of the Lower District to come to the clinic for treatment after the performance to increase my credibility. But those few bottles Water was poured on their heads, and they were cured before I could do anything."

Mikhail blushed.He heard Aaron's light-hearted laughter, and after a while he asked eagerly:

"I... I don't know yet. At that time, no one reported... Uh, maybe it was because they were afraid of being found to have drunk the potion. However, the seized money is not that much."

"Idiot, how can a wanted criminal hide treasure at home!" Aaron said boldly, "I buried the money and some necessities under the tree, let me think about it... there are gold coins in the angelica clump under the willow tree, and the cherry tree In the fennel bushes below are spare medicine-chests and some notes.—Ah, I wonder how Denier and Catherine are now."

Mikhail smiled and rolled his eyes: "We can go to the Federation to see them. They will make good doctors."

"They are so young, maybe something happened a long time ago?" Aaron raised his eyebrows, deliberately arguing with him.

Unexpectedly, Mikhail smiled triumphantly at him, showing his white teeth: "I was the one who released Catherine from the monastery. Emile and I escorted her and Denier away from Potosí and blessed them. If someone wants to harm them, it will be bad luck!"

The author says:

In the Bible, Aaron, the elder brother of Moses, was the first high priest of the Israelites. Here is a joke ()