Michael Antonovich sighed, sucked the empty tube. Then, for the first time for all time, has got into a cabin-arsenal and has
examined alarm rockets. Two half-metre steel cigars covered with a thick layer of greasing, and to them starting
arrangements - heavy tripods with a pole. It is necessary to put on a rocket this pole, to include small priborchik - about the
stabilizer - and a rocket it is ready to start-up. And here - the starting remote device...
Will make all it easy. The navigator has tried to raise a rocket, podnatuzhilsja - yes, not especially hard, it is possible and
alone... If strong attacks begin and it remains is live after the first, it will be necessary to let out rockets. _ "in twenty zero-zero
on time ` ` Hiusa" "_ as was uslovlenno with Ermakovym. And then come what may - to open the external hatch and to wait.
Michael Antonovich has put tripods; having sweated, has spread on them rockets, has admired a general view - and at it it
became somehow easier on a shower.
Has passed long veneriansky day, there has come night. Over bogs the foggy gloom has again hung. "Boy" already finishes
the campaign. Establish a direction finder on a new platform, last samples collect. Soon Michael Antonovich will lift "Hius",
soon meeting will depart on pelengi! A way back to "Tsiolkovsky" - and again a meeting! A way back to the Earth - and
again a meeting, the most joyful. And however, it is difficult even to tell, to that it will be more glad: to see friends - Ermakova,
Bogdana and others - live and safe or to see the wife and kiddies. After all by then the melancholy of expectation will be
softened. So always. However, no, not always...
Michael Antonovich recollects the first returning from Space.
Flowers, music, crowds of people, and among them, itself as a floret - Zoe.
Very young absolutely - the senior laboratorian krajuhinskogo institute. "The terrible laboratorian", - joked of it Michael
Antonovich and stuck: "If you the senior laboratorian, what younger?" Nice, nice time - blossoming of pulse nuclear rockets,
time which has put forward such, as Krajuhin, Halts, Sokolovsky... Time when old man Shrajber in Novosibirsk has
developed idea of "an absolute reflector" - idea remarkable. But as her have met, this idea! "The mad old man! The
Obscurantist-alchemist! An idealist! The fantast!" On corners were whispered: "Hi-hi!. The Absolute reflector is, means,
useless? Gy ive! Absolute otrygatel! And Shrajber-to, have heard? Speak, idejku at one Frenchman... tovo! An absolute
imitator! Ha-ha, hi-hi!." "Fools if is not worse!" - grown furious Krajuhin has told then about them. Terrible there was a fight.
Krajuhina nearly have not removed for pressing. In summary - here it, "an absolute reflector":" ` ` Hius "verzus Venus"!
(Michael Antonovich has settled the knowledge of Latin on two third and is vigorous poter hands.) "` ` Hius" verzus Venus "!
While all is quite good! Fie - fie not to maleficiate...