"Ordo Draconis - (K) Kopyleft 2016." "All Rites Reversed..." "VISITORS" "The visitors are getting ready to go home." "Because they couldn't lay their hands on the crucial notebook, the Expedition has failed." "Our heroes haven't managed to erase their last traces either." "But this time, Adam is absolutely innocent." "And they can only pay their hotel bills with help from the good Mr. Dürchlich, who invites them to his house." "Adam's new notebook, which is full of new, previously unknown calculations brings events to a new turn." "Filip's eyes are gleaming with new hope, and thus their return is indefinitely postponed for the moment." "Jack-of-all-trades Dürchlich works hard to renovate the burned out Bernau house, and places a bet on Sparta's victory." "Fido patiently endures being used, and the camera placed on his collar records every step his owner makes." "Filip doesn't trust anything or anyone this time." "He even hides away the only pair of trousers their host has, to stop him going to the restaurant." "The trick is successful." "But unexpectedly, Fido leaves his owner and starts to broadcast news entirely unrelated to Adam and the notebook." "14." "AFTER US, THE FLOOD" "This is an outrage!" "She turned it off!" "He might be a genius at mathematics," " but otherwise he's a terrible kid." " What are you trying to say?" "They have very strange things in their car." " I think they're transmitting, actually." " Don't talk so much." "Just keep looking." "But I saw it here somewhere, just the other day." " No, that's too big." "Your dad needs a little one for the cellar." " And this?" "Let me see." "Aha!" "This is the one!" "Mr. Dürchlich!" "There's a pair of trousers shoved into the hay here." "Why?" "But this is my only pair of trousers!" "Which one of them did this, I wonder?" "Is this where you usually do experiments, Mr. Dürchlich?" " Let me look around!" " It's getting late, lad." "Some other time." "You can take the little cart from the courtyard." " Good night!" " Good night!" " Good night, Adam." "So!" "We had some fun." "It's time to go to sleep." "You can't play cards, that's a fact." "But it seems as if you enjoy... making a fool of an old man." "Well, what can I say?" "Promising future!" "Put out the fire before you go to sleep." "Good night!" "Good night!" "But we weren't..." "Is that you?" "Hey!" "Where's your collar?" "Where did you put it, eh?" "Don't you understand, idiot?" "Fido!" "All right, then!" "Who put it back on you?" "You hear me?" "How did you get it back?" "And anyway, where do you keep disappearing to?" "One day somebody's gonna steal you, just wait!" "Can't you sleep?" "Me neither." "Mr. Dürchlich..." "I think we owe you a more detailed explanation." "You know, we didn't come here for no reason." "And not for entertainment or out of curiosity." "Are you asleep, Mr. Dürchlich?" "The Earth is endangered." "And we're trying to save whatever we can." "We were only given a couple of days, but nothing worked out." "Forgive me for hiding your trousers." "But I was afraid that if you went to the restaurant you'd drop a word or two about us being here, in between beers." "Do you hear what I'm saying?" "Yes." "I do." "But I still don't understand." "I thought we could trust each other." "It's one thing to believe in something, another to take risks." "Karas!" "Say something!" "What should I say?" "It wasn't me who hid the trousers." "Is that you?" "Petr was here, wasn't he?" "Don't cry." "Come on, I'll make you some coffee." "Did you say goodbye to each other?" "He promised to come back tomorrow as well." "Youth!" "But still, it wasn't very nice of you to think I'd talk." "And even if I did..." "What did you think?" "That anybody would have believed me at all?" "It didn't even cross your minds, right?" "Yet you know everything about the future." "Am I right?" "Everything." "Even the match results from next week." "Perhaps you could even tell me what kind of winter to expect this year." "But really!" "How much firewood should I buy?" " Do you know?" " We do." " Can I tell him?" " You can." " We brought along... a little database." "Using it, we could for example check what the weather on December the 12th will be in Kamenice." "5 degrees at dawn." "With heavy snow." "+4 degrees at noon, with sunshine." "That's bearable." "And..." "Do you also know if there'll be any wars, for example?" "We do." "Wow!" "And then... do you perhaps also know" " how long I'll live?" " We do." "Dürchlich, Alois Drachoslav, born on 15th September 1914, in Demandice, on a Sunday?" "I wouldn't know that." "But the rest is correct." " Death: road accident, 19..." " Stop!" "Stop!" "I don't want to know." "Stop it!" "Phew!" "Well, I'm going to feed the rabbits." "So soon?" "May I?" "I want to know everything about somebody." "I could never even hope for this in my dreams." "What an maddening distance!" "It's simply unfathomable!" "It's a big thing that they picked me, actually." "Out of 30 people!" "That's how many of us just graduated from school." "It's so amazing, it's hard to believe it's true." "How could it not be true?" "The plane ticket is in your pocket." "Yes, but somehow..." "You're here." "And I'm going to take you with me." "I enlarged it." "From this group picture." "This is for you." "I wanted to give it to you after they published my article." "It will be entitled "The country road is coming"." "But it'll only be published next week." "Buy me a copy as well, would you?" "Thanks." "One month in Star City!" "I'll be sending tons of reports for the Youth Front Light, and if I can, I might even write a book." ""Encountering the Future."" "Doesn't it sound stupid?" " Ah, I'm sure it wouldn't work out." " But it will." "And you won't just write one book." "Fame and fortune is waiting for you." "A fully lived life." "Two of your books will be especially popular." " Only two of them?" " Why?" "That's something already." "You sound so serious about it, as if you really knew." "I read it in your palm." "Your most famous book will be called" ""Farewell."" " Where did you put it?" " Thank God!" "If you'd come just 30 seconds later..." "Bye!" "I'll be writing to you!" "It doesn't matter!" "If you leave here, I'll find you!" "I asked for your address at the hotel!" "Hradec-Kralova, Peace Housing Estate, Block C, No. 43." "I'd go to the end of the world to see you!" "Mum!" "Let me go to the lake just a little bit!" "Mum!" "I just want to swim a little." "Let me go, please!" "Having fun all the time!" "And who'll do your homework instead of you?" "Fido?" "Just this once!" "Good day!" "Hi, Adam!" "Cigarette break!" "Anyway, we've run out of roofing felt." "Is there another drum?" "Bernau!" " Unload the materials!" " Do you hear him?" "He's been nagging me like this since morning, and I'm even paying him for it." "Not to mention that he involved you in it, too!" " Come on, please!" "Don't even mention it." " Thank you very much." " What news at school?" " Don't even ask!" "It's terrible, the things he does." "Come on, show him your report book!" "Let him know how troublesome it is to have a child!" "I'm not saying my kid's a genius, but he should at least get through school." "One day he'll surpass everybody else." "Come on!" "What's up with you?" "How long do we have to wait for the material?" " Grab it, lad." " Good!" " Can you handle it?" "Is this mathematics?" "Come on!" "Adam, come here!" "What is this here?" "Why don't you write down formulas instead, you foolish boy?" " This makes no sense at all!" " Adam!" "They're calling me." "Adam!" "This isn't working..." "Of course, you're standing at the edge." "Phew, it's muddy here!" "It'd be better if you went a bit further in." "And try to twist the handle." "First to the right, and then to the left." " Are you doing it?" " I'm doing it." "Like that." "Eek!" "Ali!" "Ali!" "Ali!" "You're totally stupid!" "Surely there must be some trick to it." " Can't you remember?" " Their car was parked outside." "And it was the four of them." "Whew, I'm gonna get a beating for this." " Relax, it'll dry by then." " Do you promise you won't peek?" "Why did you look at me?" "I didn't." "I'm just looking around." "You should have seen the girl in the picture in my notebook!" " But you're even prettier than her!" " That's easy to say, with no notebook." " But really!" " Seriously?" " Seriously." "Hey!" "We messed it up, no matter how smart you are." "Perhaps there's some magic incantation too, like in a fairytale." " Fall, rain, fall!" "Fall into the lake!" " You sound like a retard!" "You can see for yourself!" "This umbrella is not like any other." "You can pull out an antenna from it." "Four such umbrellas!" "And the rain doesn't even fall on them." "Only into the empty fishing lake." "But now it's not empty." "You're right!" "Perhaps if there was no water in the lake..." "But the thing is that there is!" "So, why should it rain into it then?" " Stay here!" " Adam!" "What are you going to do?" "Adam!" "Stop fooling!" "I'm afraid!" "Relax!" "I just want to let out some water!" "I'll close it again soon." "Jesus!" "Stay there!" "It looks like it's stuck somehow." "Push it towards me!" "Push harder!" "Argh!" "A flood!" "Help!" "Help!" "Argh!" "Help!" "Help!" "Argh!" "Argh!" "Argh!" "Help!" "Argh!" " Help!" " Help!" "Help!" "Help!" "Plus one garden gazebo, value: 6000 Crowns." "6000 Crowns?" "You're kidding!" "What idiot would do it for so little these days?" "Plus I had my radio there, and a lot of other valuable things." "You keep remembering more and more valuable things one after another!" "And I had some carpets in the car, too!" " Right on the seats!" " Mr. Engineer." "Are these your umbrellas?" "Have a look at them, please." "The kid admitted that he stole them for the purpose of some experiment." "No, Sir." "This is a misunderstanding." "I gave him the umbrellas, since Adam and I are good friends." "Cross out the word 'stole'." "But still, it's classified as a commonplace mischief, therefore it doesn't change the overall situation at all." "There you go." "My condolences, Bernau." "It'll cost you a lot more than your burned down house." "Listen, I've got 32 Crowns pocket money." "Oh, there's no need for that." "But thanks anyway." " 2000!" "And I'm being very generous!" " Don't make me laugh!" "For those rotten fruits?" " It was flooded, wasn't it?" " What are you doing here?" "Estimating the damage." "Why did we have to choose the fishing lake?" "Wet goose, 1." "Ah, of course." "The one Mrs. Jouza wanted to cook for dinner." "How much?" "350 thousand at this point." "With the garden gazebo, the fruits and the car." "I expected a lot more." "And so, I can conclude that based on the preliminary estimates, the total cost of the damage is 351,426 Crowns." "Papa!" "Good day!" "Pardon me." "There is a hearing going on here, Mr. Dürchlich!" " Or are you one of the complainants perhaps?" " No." "On the contrary." "What do you mean by that?" "I mean we're going to sort it out right away." "There's no point wasting time." "Here and now." "This here is 300,000." "There's no need to count it." "I brought it from the post office." "And then there's this one as well, 50, 3, 4." "Plus the rest. 1426." "There you go!" "Wow, this is so good!" "I've got 4 Crowns left for beer!" "Well, hang on!" "Not so quick!" " How did you get all this?" " You mean me?" "I had a lucky dream." "And I placed a bet, for the first time in my life." "Adam and Ali!" "A pair of lovers!" "They're escorting Ali too." "Recording." "Why do you keep turning round?" "Look ahead!" "And if I see you again with that scoundrel Bernau, I'll send you to a foster home!" "I don't want to see you with that girl again!" "Stop turning around!" "Look ahead!" "Turn it off." "Erase it." "Our little Romeo." "I'm sorry for him." "Except that Romeo didn't become a genius later on, since it wasn't him who invented the formula for the shifting of the continents in space and time." "In short, he wasn't concerned about the survival of the endangered human race." "There's no need for us to wait here." "Go on." "Enough of this!" "That's 10 in total." "Which means it would be enough for 10 pints of beer." "Daily." "For 30 years." "That's something, pal!" "Waiter!" "One pint for me!" "Hello, guys!" " Hi!" " Hello, pal!" "So, what's the bet?" " The usual!" " Everything's clear." "We were just talking about you, Loisik, that you were always such an ox, but wasting away that money was an amazing accomplishment even for you." "Stop annoying him!" "Would it be better if he started wearing ties and never sat down playing cards with us from now on?" "Quite right!" "People are strange, you know." "Since then, they seem to be keeping their distance." "Until now, whenever I walked through the town, something always happened." "Mr. Dürchlich this, and that." "Come in for a while, please!" "Fix the fence!" "Cut the grass, bring it to the cellar!" "And who knows what else!" "Fixing the pavement." "I can do a bit of everything." "Hearts!" "Go on!" "I've sunk so low," "I even had to buy myself some potatoes." "There must be no traces of the future left." "No traces of us ever being here." "Eye No. 1!" " Eat it, Fido!" " Why don't you have him sit by the table?" "You hear me?" "Mum!" "Can I go outside for a while?" " Just into the garden." " On the very first night we moved back in?" "You sit down!" "Show me your report book!" "Who heard of such a thing?" "Come on, show me!" ""While the class was doing a mathematics test," "Adam sent a poem to one of his classmates."" "Jana Mala." "What do you say, mama?" "Our son is going to become a poet." "Well, of course, he's already a great artist at spending our money!" "Go and wash yourself!" "And off to bed with you!" "Forget about the garden!" "You understand?" "Ouch!" "He almost bit me!" " What's this?" " Nutritional extract." "I already had 3 today." "But not MM Forte!" "Our task is as follows:" "Fido will be let outside for the night." "I'll chase him out, and you lure him to yourself." "Karas, the food is for the dog." "And while he's feeding, you collect Eye No. 1 from the collar." "Run!" "You terrible beast!" "Karas!" "Look out!" "It's coming!" "The sausages!" " Fido!" " Fido!" " Fido, come here!" "Fido!" "It's Adam!" "Take cover!" "He's signalling someone." "It looks like Morse code." "Hi  Ali!" "Fido!" "You!" "Clever!" "Cover me!" "Do you have Eye No. 1?" " I do." " Don't lose it!" "It'll be so good to remember all this." "This night." "Adam and Ali, the chirping crickets." "And myself in the past." "Don't be so sentimental." "Our trip was unsuccessful." "I can't think about anything else, but the nonexistent formula about the shifting of continents." "But of course it's not you who'll be held responsible upon our return." "It will be me!" "END OF PART 14."