Stalker Page #3

He had been taking people to the Zone

for years, and no one could stop him.

He was my teacher.

He opened my eyes.

He was called Teacher then,

not Porcupine.

Then something happened to him,

something broke in him.

Though I think

he was punished.

Will you help me? Tie those strips

of bandage to the nuts.

And I... will go for a walk.

I need to do something...

Don't go anywhere.

Where's he going?

He wants to be alone, I guess.

Why? Even with the three of us

together, I feel weird.

A date with the Zone.

He's a stalker.

And what does that mean?

You see, being a stalker

is some sort of calling.

- I thought he'd be different.

- Like what?

Well, you know, the Leather Stockings,

Chingachgook sort of things...

His background is even more frightful.

Several times in prison,

then he was harmed here.

He has a mutant daughter,

"a victim of the Zone" as they call it.

They say she's got no legs.

And what about this Porcupine?

What does it mean, "was punished"?

Or was it just a figure of speech?

One day Porcupine returned from here

and got rich overnight.

Fabulously rich.

You call it punishment?

A week later he hanged himself.

Why?

Quiet!

What was that?

Presumably a meteorite fell down

here about twenty years ago.

It had burned down the settlement.

They searched for this meteorite,

but never found it, of course.

Why "of course"?

Then people began disappearing here.

They came here and never returned.

So it was concluded...

that this meteorite

was not really a meteorite.

At first...

they circled the place with barbed

wire to scare off the inquisitive.

All this gave rise to rumours

that there's a place in the Zone...

where wishes come true.

Naturally, they began to guard

the Zone like the apple of their eye.

Who knows what kind of wish

someone might cherish.

What was it if not a meteorite?

I told you, no one knows.

And what do you think?

Nothing.

Or anything.

A message to mankind,

as one of my colleagues says.

Or a gift.

Some gift.

Why on earth would they do it?

To make us happy.

The flowers are blooming again,

but they don't smell for some reason.

Sorry for leaving you two here,

but it was too early to go anyway.

Did you hear it?

Maybe someone lives here?

Who?

You told me yourself

about some tourists camped here

when the Zone originated.

There's no one in the Zone and

there can't be.

Well, it's time.

How are we going to return?

- They don't return here.

- What do you mean?

We'll go as we agreed.

I'll show the direction.

Any deviation from it is dangerous.

The first landmark is that last pole.

You go first, Professor.

Now you.

Try to follow in his footsteps.

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