Children of the gods. Irina Ritter

a journalist held a microphone to the face of Margarita Timofeeva.

      Well, 15th of September I was waiting for the daughter from school, when the appointed time she never came back, I began to call the teacher, then went to her friend Nadya’s there, too. Then I went to school. We were looking for a teacher together, called classmates. I decided to go to the police. – slightly stuttering said Margarita.

      – Tell me, Nadia met someone from school?

      – In fourth grade she met, but this year, Nadia asked not to meet, as she was ashamed in front of classmates.

      – As we know, you before the loss came with the watch?

      – Yes, I’m working shifts in another city together with her husband. In the morning I followed Nadia to school. In the afternoon went to meet her, but we missed her. Apparently she was kidnapped before. In the area my mother repeatedly attacked.

      Your husband is the father of Nadia?

      – No, dear father of Nadia does not live with us. He has another family.

      – Who lived Nadia, when you and your husband worked on the watch?

      – She lived with my sister and her husband and my grandmother.

      – Do you have any suspicions who could have done it?

      – Yes, we have suspicions. My sister, i.e. my aunt Nadine said that three days before the abduction to Nade on the bridge I stuck some man, asked her about the river. But it was scared off behind the guy.

      – You know that the mayor has offered a reward of 1000000 roubles for the information about the whereabouts of Nadya Timofeeva – the journalist applied to the audience of the TV channel.

      – What would you like to say to the audience, or maybe would like to appeal to your daughter’s kidnappers?

      – Yes, I would like to ask residents not to be indifferent and go in search of my daughter. If someone knows something or saw the police. Also want to appeal to the kidnappers to return the child. By law, if you will return the child voluntarily, you are exempt from criminal liability.

      Thank you! I wish you good luck in search. To find your daughter alive and unharmed!

      – And thank you…

      Chapter 4

      The search did not stop for one day. Nadia was looking for and in weekends and on weekdays, who had such an opportunity.

      – You heard that in our town the girl went missing 11 years, Nadia Timofeeva? asked her husband, pouring the boiling water into a Cup of coffee. – Left school and home not reached. It’s been a few days looking for.

      Ksenia slowly moved around the kitchen in a short robe and sandals home. Thick, wavy red hair was carelessly gathered the top and pinned barrette. Xenia have not had time in the morning to apply makeup, and because all her red freckles were now visible on a white face and large blue eyes framed with fluffy eyelashes light. She sat down at the table across from her husband and put the drink next to him. Alex extinguished the cigarette and put the butt in a glass ashtray.

      – Yes, I heard at work was talking about it. By the way, our guys are going on a quest today. Dima is a dog, he wants her to take. I don’t know, will anything come of it, I need some specially trained search dogs. But, in any case, it’s better than nothing. Suddenly something smells.

      – Maybe we go with them? ‘asked Ksenia.

      – Do you want? I think in your situation it’s better not to participate in such events.

      You know, I even dreamt of today. It has never happened. I want to go! – persistently said Ksenia.

      – What did you dream? – asked the husband with interest and even a sort of surprise.

      – She asked that she was found…

      – She was alive in a dream?

      – Yes, alive. At least I thought so…

      Ksenia and Alex as we both fell silent and for a while sat silent in thought, each thinking of his.

      – I think you’re just too close took this story due to the fact that she is now expecting a baby, think a lot about children, that’s all! – husband with a smile looked at Her and stroked her ginger hair, gleaming red gold in the morning sun.

      – Maybe… where do you think its worth a look, if she’s alive?

      Alex for some time, thought, said:

      – If she’s alive – she’s probably being held somewhere in the garage or in abandoned dachas, or anybody else in the cellar. Well, something like that. It could be kidnap to demand a ransom. Although, no one has yet presented no demands. And, in General, such a public outcry this case has produced, it seems to me that criminals are now afraid. I’m afraid that they can now get rid of it. Well, of course, if abducted for ransom. There may be other reasons…

      – How many cases, when a maniac was holding his victims for years in basements and cellars, dug specially for this purpose! Remember, I wrote about Natasha kampusch from America? Her man was kidnapped and held in a specially dug pit in his garage. Eight years she spent there, and then when he began to trust her to clean up my garage, ran away from him. She even wrote a book about it and sued the estate of a maniac. And he, as I recall, committed suicide… Yes, though we do not remember in what city, man lived with his mother, was not married. Dug at home an entire room and lured two young girls. He lived four years. One even several children gave birth to him, and then they managed to pass a note to another girl quietly when he wanted her to lure. She went with this note to the police. And then only found them and freed… at all. scary even to think…

      – I can call Dima and find out where they are going. Go with them, and you still will not calm down! laughing said Alex.

      – Of course, I will not rest…

      About an hour later Xenia’s husband arrived at the house of Dmitry Ustyuzhanina in their dark-blue “Crown”. Dmitry lived in a two-story brick house, which he built himself, along with his older brother Sergei and his father. A year ago, Dima is married and has got two daughters – twins Alina and angelina. Dmitri was the same age as Alex. Tall with dark short-cropped hair, brown eyes, and a figure of Apollo. They met a few years ago, when Dmitry with his father and brother Sergey decided to organize his company for the repair and decoration of apartments and houses. They were looking for a good paver tile, and Alex was looking for work. Since then they have worked together.

      Good morning! – climbs out of the car said Alex.

      Hey! And you do not get ill! Well, thinking with us?! with unconcealed joy said Dima over the fence.

      – Yes, my wife insisted, – Alexey lovingly pulled her to him Xenia. How many people going on a quest?

      – I, Sergei and his wife Olga, the two of you, Yuri with her son. It turns out seven people.

      – Yuri – who?

      – This is my neighbor, right across the street there, Dima waved his hand in a house of white brick with semi-circular plastic Windows and blue tiles on the roof, surrounded by a wrought-iron fence. The top and bottom of the walls was lined with a pattern of red brick.

      Dog take?

      – Yes, Rex is going with us! Take with a boat want to check the river and lake, you know, we all the time go? Want to go there. Well, the forest around is also need to prosharit.

      Alex of course knew these lakes, about which said Dima, as often went there for fishing and just relax. These lakes began on the outskirts of the city and stretched for many kilometers along the route.

      How’s that all going? – came out of the