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Revelations, совершенно чудесный фанфег, Авенджеры и Локи путешествуют по ветвям Иггдрасиля, пытаясь вернуть Тора из царства мёртвых)))

длинное, но бесконечно очаровательное цитато, Локи рассказывает сказки Халку))

"Shall I tell you a story?" Loki said. Hulk looked up at him expectantly. Loki looked around and pointed. "Do you see that fruit, over there—it's far away. Yes, there, on the fourth branch up."

"Planet," Hulk said, after a squint.

"Yes," Loki said. "That is the dark world of Mor on the edge of Yggdrasil's night, where the Vallen-Ri reign. They have a great tower by the sea, which every year the kings build a little higher. Every lord brings them with their yearly tribute a single brick into which they have laid a great treasure from their demesne, and the king taking these climbs to the top with a supply train of servants following him, to lay each one down with a mortar made of pearls and milk.

"The tower has grown so wide and so high that now a new king is crowned every year, for the one who goes aloft will not return in his lifetime; indeed the kings who go take a bride with them, and let their sons complete the journey. There are cities built within the tower, and wars take place between them, now and again.

"The story I will tell you is of two of these cities: Wir of the Eastern Wall, and Upper Kavana—"

Hulk's forehead had been furrowing deeper as Loki spoke, and abruptly he broke in. "Lies!"

"It's a story," Loki said.

"Not true!" the Hulk said.

Loki shrugged. "All things are true, somewhere and in their own way."

"Lies." Hulk scowled at him. "Story."

"All right," Loki said. "You want me to tell you a true story?"

"OK," Hulk said.

"There was once a woman named Avirna. She wove baskets for her living, not particularly well but well enough. On warm days, she would leave the market early to have a bath in her small yard. She would fetch a bucket of water and fill it at the well, and pour it in the tub. She would fetch a second bucket of water and fill it at the well, and pour that into the tub. She would fetch a third bucket of water and fill it at the well, and pour that into the tub."

"Three!" Hulk said.

"Yes," Loki said. "Three buckets so far."

"More," Hulk said.

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[Икебана Фаберже]

Блин! А я раскатала губу)))
А оно на английском!!!

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Икебана Фаберже,