To insist on so much insistence on formalities led me to suspect that these people want to declare if they found a treasure and I therefore do not have it any rights. Later it turned out that this is how it was. I thought that the condition of the contract, declaring all mine sole property Zelma Numinosa – plenty for willful obstruction of robbery. The agreement does not specify the name of the discoverer, but unequivocally stated that the owner of the name will be on the right to bear the title of the owner. After all, no matter who was the first actual owner – me. Since then it seemed my ignorance.

At home I told my mother. “One you can not handle this field – she said. – Take the assistants, who you trust, give them a fair share fee treasures. “With this one could not agree more. I quickly found the necessary help. Two friends went with me to share, agreeing that it would be owed ​​to a third of the proceeds of sale, and to me do not need more any work. Although not without some hesitation, both agreed with the requirement that title to all the field should belong exclusively to me and that no part of this property can not be transferred to someone else. I have prepared such a document and forced them to put them under the most indispensable signatures are only possible in the Poseidon – a signature in their own blood. All three of us have done it.

However, the excitement was unbearable stress for my nerves, and the already weakened, I lost consciousness. But youth is flexible, and the body of those whose heart knows no sin, has the wonderful ability to recover. Soon I came to myself, and I was smart enough to not stay here and continue their journey home, believing that my instinct is unerring mountaineer guide, decide when to come back here again.

Here and there a rock covered with wounds opened my eyes to porphyritic quartz veins shell coming in thick layers of granite. Just thinking about that first behold the pristine primordial rock, which no one else on the creation of the world not given to see, I was delighted. And then said something that made the heart jump for joy right next to me was a living, literally studded with gold nuggets! It was, and silver ore. The plasticity of precious metals revealed very unusual way: the gold and silver just pulled from the cracked surface in the filament, whose length in some cases reached a few inches. I forgot about the weakness of hunger, pain in the head and bruised muscles and sang a hymn of thanksgiving to God. Destroyed by a high peak, lost the only road that led to the place where I had left his treasure, but there was an even greater riches! It was closer to home and get to it easier!

Climbing in the dim light, I got to the remaining part of the ridge, more precisely, to the rest of his two sharp teeth, under which the steaming hot lake. Climb on top was very dangerous. But the rock was brack, uniformly wide, as if someone ripped a special stone barrier from top to bottom. I got into it, not thinking that at any moment a new spasm of the volcano can close the cleft and crush me like a vise. Rather, the thought flashed through my head, but being present poseydontsem, I threw away the fear, believing in the protection of the Inca, whose will, whatever it was, for me is always good.

Ascendant Incal opened eyes the picture quite different from what I saw yesterday. Half of the proud peak just boldly absorbed her mysterious womb. Closer to me, where before there rose the crests of rocks, now lay a large lake of steaming water. The banks were covered with its ashes and wrapped in soft clouds of steam. In the cold air condensed steam, turning into a rare drizzly rain – funeral lament of the earth! It was a terrifying silence. That ledge on which I lay, nearly escaped destruction, but the path on which I usually rose to the top, finally gone. A huge chunk of weight, probably in the thousands of tons, sliding into the abyss, has demolished it. We had to find another way.

Finally, the wild roaring and shaking began to subside, but continued to blaze erupting lava, but sometimes, like in tribal battles, the land openeth her ​​bosom, as a gateway to the underworld. I was lying on a ledge, weak and sick. Gradually the lava flow stopped, the lights went out. Finally, all filled with deadly calm, only a gray ash fell silently down, covering the wounded land. There was a darkness. It must have been for some time, I lost consciousness. When it woke up, felt a sharp throbbing pain in my head on top was a wound from which blood oozed. I sat down, rummaged around and found a sharp stone, which apparently fell from the top, hit me – praise the gods! – Not too much. Dawn just worked, and exhausted from pain, hunger and cold, I lay down again in anticipation of the dawn.

Below the cliff, over which I was, heard a terrible grinding, the earth shook, the blow followed blow. In desperation, I struggled holding onto the rocks. There, before running in front of the valley, the envelope of the other ridges and spurs of the peak. Until recently they were all in place, but now they bravely. I could not tear his eyes away from the scene horrific chaos, it is clear in light of the erupting volcano. Entire blocks were set in motion, with a terrible roar, they rose up and falls down like ocean waves – a real hell! And from the sky poured rain, endless dense volcanic ash, a funeral shroud covering this, it seemed doomed world.

Several miles, been laid on the sharp ridge. In many places the trail next to the gaping deep dips. They were so close that I had to help himself with his hands. Sometimes rocks pressed trail, and she turned into a narrow slit. I thanked Incana, because while I was in such danger, the god of the mountain did not make the earth tremble in a painful spasm. After three miles I had to go on the roof, terrible precipice hanging over the end of which in front of me rose rocky wall. Only a flaming mountain lit my path now. And when I tried to gently descend on basalt precipice, threw me a powerful impetus to his knees, almost dropping down. A moment later the air was filled with a growing roar. Horrified, I looked back. A huge pillar of flame burst into the sky from the crater of the volcano. He threw up stones, so much that they could be seen even here.

Of course, the angels of the Supreme uncreated God – Father always help kids and shout, “Yes you will be rewarded according to your faith!” – Seen in me the desire to rise above the others, but I was punished for it is only fear, nothing more wrong with me until it happened . I ran farther and farther away as quickly as possible to the trail, and praise Inkalu. By God’s mercy, I probably did not need to then know how insignificant the treasure in my pockets as would otherwise have to remove the sting of disappointment, look for a new, more abundant source of funds.