cradle knows that that man who at least once met in a dense forest the fairy never comes back home any more!
The fairy ceased to laugh. She was very puzzled with such turn of business.
- Hey, you, and well get out! - she began to stick into Prinze with some stick. - And well get out, I speak, and I will pull out that by force! Unless you do not know that with fairies mortal do not act this way, a-a-a? They have to answer when they are asked!
From stick touches on all body of Prinze some unpleasant itch crept away. At last, it did not sustain and put out the head from under a blanket:
- And you will not turn me into a rabbit or into a partridge? - stared Prinze at the Fairy big, childly naive eyes, and that swept with laughter again.
- And from what …. from what … suddenly … to me … … to turn you?
- Well-at-at-at … In fairy tales read about it. And all speak in the district - fairies, they, … - and Prinze turned that a finger at a temple.
- Okhkhkh … well … long ago … I … so … not … laughed … long ago … Everything, is solved! - otsmeyavshis, the Fairy loudly clapped, - you remain with me to live! You will entertain me at a leisure, and that Animals already rather bothered me: at them already what one thousand years the same numbers! - and then it playfully slapped Prinze a stick directly in the head. From pain Prinze turned white and grabbed a healthy hand the hurt place, wounds its sense did not heal yet. The fairy understood that here she obviously overdid and scaredly embraced Prinze.
- What is with you? To you it is bad? And well, wait … - it got the magic pink comb again: couple of touches to Prinze's hair - and pain right there ceased.
- Forgive me, Prinze, I absolutely forgot that you at me the wounded, you cannot be touched … Just I so could not wait to take a fun with you, I so seldom have guests! - and the Fairy sadly looked down.
- How … as … as you called me? - puzzly Prinze asked.
- How? - also with astonishment the Fairy answered. - "Prince"! And unless you are not a prince?
- I do not know … I do not remember … Some blackness in the head …
- And how call you, too you do not remember?
- Too … - Prinze uncertainly answered, having scratched the top.
- And where you live? Where your parents?
- N are N - N do not, any failure … I do not remember …
- Everything is clear! - having clapped, the Fairy exclaimed. - Probably, when you hit the head against that fir-tree root, and struck your memory!
- Well and it is remarkable! - suddenly unexpectedly she burst out laughing. - Means if you do not know from where you and who you are, then, therefore, and are no place to go to you, and therefore you will live at me - and a point!
- About what such root? And why I am "Prince"? Tell me for the sake of the Creator, oh, the Beautiful Fairy!
It was necessary to sit down to the Fairy on a chair at a headboard of a bed of Prinze and to tell all story of the first meeting with it about which we already know, and also about what is meant by his medallion and a signet ring which mere mortals cannot have.
- … There now, - the Fairy summed up, playfully smiling. - So judge: you - "time" - bending fingers, she told, - was taken prisoner to me (it is my wood and to people not the place here!), and - "two" - I to you saved life, and therefore you - "time" - are obliged to obey me and - "two" - to entertain me and to make laugh, and …
- Madam, madam, well leave you alone the patient, I beg, mya-at-at! I as the master of medicine insist on it! - the big-eared gray head of the Kitten seemed in a doorway. - The patient has an amnesia, a severe craniocereberal trauma, two fractures, and you slight him here! You will play with it when recovers, I beg, to a mya-u! And in general, long ago it is time to feed him and it is time for you to have breakfast.
The fairy has a snack a sponge from disappointment:
- "Still Animals did not order me! Who here hostess?", - she