Having spent to a caisson alarm system from a radio receiver not to miss a call of friends, Michael Antonovich sat hours,
holding a finger on the automatic machine switch, observed, listened. An asphalt platform round "Hiusa" quickly porosla
whitish seaweed. The first days Michael Antonovich watched, how the ring of thickets is compressed. Then to it each time
was necessary to cut through in the beginning of supervision a window in a wall of the plants which have entangled case
"Хиуса". Hard settled in bog planetolet has been surrounded by the strange and terrible world of this planet only due to a
misunderstanding bearing a name of the goddess of love and beauty. The atmosphere consisting of carbonic acid, nitrogen
and a hot fog; the poisonous heavy water containing the big percent dejterievoj and tritievoj of water; the damp heat
reaching hundred degrees on Celsius; flora and the fauna, which one kind excluded any thought on their use in food...
- It is good that your Golconda is not similar on these to bogs - Michael Antonovich Ermakovu spoke.
That only coughed in the answer.
In a hot semitwilight venerianskogo day brightly flashing far sparks wandered, the bog sighed heavily, with noise trunks of
monstrous mushrooms burst - threw out a rain slippery shone dispute. Perhaps, it were not disputes, but Michael Antonovich
itself saw, how these elastic, in size about a fist lilac balls started to sprout white feelers, falling in bog. The wind brought
brightly shone fog - is deathly-dark blue curling clouds hard settled it in thickets. The thunder-storm once has burst. The fog
was filled with a shivering greenish glow, peals of thunder have merged in a continuous roar, between the hung stalks blue
balls of fireballs have begun to jump strujashchie fire, has pulled heat, and has suddenly flown the heated whirlwind." Hius
"shook. Michael Antonovich, adhering for hatch edges, with amazement has seen, how the arrow of the thermometer has
promptly risen, having stepped for two hundred. The silt wave has struck in planetolet, has far rejected the navigator from the
hatch. Turning in a dense swill, it long could not rise, sliding feet on a dirt and when at last has risen, there were no forces to
close the hatch. After the third or fourth attempt the heavy cover under the pressure of a wind has knocked it down, and he
has fainted. Has regained consciousness in half an hour, and can, and in an hour. Hurricane has abated, the caisson has
been hammered by silt, around"Hiusa"namelo a heap of decaying seaweed.