Karina Khromova, sixteen years old, brunette, medium height, shoulder-length hair, thin, knows how to stand up for herself. Character: strong-willed, honest, purposeful, kind. She dreams of working as a kindergarten teacher.

Karina and her father are sitting at the kitchen table, having lunch. On the table are two plates of borscht and a plate of pies.

– Daughter, have you decided to become a teacher? – asks the father.

– Why not! «I’ll go to college, study and look after the kids,» Karina answers.

«By that time you will need to start your own,» the father says, biting the pie.

– Wait and see.

– — I don’t intend to wait long.

«I’d better go for a walk with Dick,» says Karina and gets up from the table. The father looks out the window and says:

– — Be careful not to get wet, clouds are approaching.

Dick looks at Karina, starts jumping and wagging his tail. Karina attaches the leash to her collar and goes outside. The sun is shining brightly, it’s warm outside Karina and Dick are playing in the field. Dick, a German shepherd, has been faithfully serving his owners for eight years. Karina’s father often swears at him, so he loves Karina more.

Black clouds are approaching and she decides to return home. Suddenly a strong wind rises and it starts to rain. Karina and Dick are hiding under a large tree, she sits down and begins to stroke Dick.

«Don’t worry, now the rain will stop and you and I will go home,» says Karina.

Khromov Yuri Ivanovich, forty-five years old, dark-haired, of average height, thin, has a gentle character, rarely shows severity. I’m ready to lend my shoulder at any moment.

At this moment lightning strikes, Karina falls to the ground and loses consciousness. Dick whines and licks Karina’s face, then turns around and runs home.

After jumping over the fence, Dick begins to bark near the door. The father comes out to the door and asks:

– — Are you a dick, or what? Where did you lose Karina?

Dick turns around and runs to the gate. Yuri Ivanovich throws on his raincoat as he walks and runs out of the house, following Dick. Dick looks back, waiting for his owner, and picks up speed again. Ten minutes later, Yuri Ivanovich runs up to his daughter and feels the pulse on his hand.

«There is a pulse, which means he will live,» says Yuri Ivanovich.

He takes Karina in his arms and carries her home, Dick runs next to her and barks.

The rain does not stop, as if the heavenly office decided to flood this world.

Yuri Ivanovich takes Karina into the bedroom and puts her on the bed. He dials the ambulance number on the landline and says:

– Hello ambulance!

Chapter No. 2

An ambulance arrives, a doctor and a nurse enter the house. In the bedroom, Karina lies unconscious on the bed. The doctor sits down on the bed next to her and begins to listen to her. The nurse takes a chair and sits next to him, the father watches while standing.

– — What happened? – the doctor asks Yuri Ivanovich.

– — I don’t know, my daughter went for a walk with the dog. Then I found her unconscious under a tree,» Yuri Ivanovich answers, shrugging his shoulders.

On his right hand, the doctor discovers a dark spot the size of an apple.

«There is an assumption that she was struck by lightning,» says the doctor.

– — So what now?

The doctor gets out of bed and says:

– We need to take her to the hospital, there may be irreversible consequences.

«Then I’m with you,» says Yuri Ivanovich and puts on his cloak.

– Stay at home, you will visit her tomorrow. She is now unconscious and may spend the whole night in this state.

– But I’m a father!

– — Now you can’t help her.

The next day Karina begins to come to her senses and the nurse

who had been on duty next to her all night, leaves and returns with the doctor. A room with four beds, two of them are empty, an elderly woman lies on one, Karina on the other.

The doctor comes up to Karina and sits on the bed.

– Welcome back! – says the doctor.

– Where I am?

– You girl are in the hospital, I am your attending physician Roman Semyonovich. Do you remember anything?

– — I don’t understand what you mean? – Karina looks at the doctor in surprise.

– — You were brought to us unconscious.

– — I only remember that I was walking with Dick and that’s all.

The doctor on duty shows Karina a dark spot on her arm, in the shoulder area.

– — Apparently, you were struck by lightning yesterday.

Karina also begins to look at her spot on her hand.

– Then why didn’t I die?

– — This phenomenon has not yet been fully studied by scientists, so we cannot confirm anything or, on the contrary, refute it.

– —Are you feeling well?

– — Quite, only my head hurts a little.

«Well, this can be fixed, in our pharmacy they sell magic pills for the head,» the doctor smiles.

– Tell me, when can I go home?

Roman Semyonovich gets out of bed and shakes Karina’s left hand.

– — I think in a couple of hours. Yes, I almost forgot, your father is waiting for you in the corridor, I’ll call him now. «And you get well,» the doctor says with a smile on his face.

At this moment Karina has a vision:

«Doctor Roman Semyonovich returns home late at night. He enters the backyard and a man in jeans and a sports jacket with a hood comes towards him. The stranger pulls a knife out of his pocket and says:

– Old man, give me the money quickly!

«I’m a doctor, I don’t have a lot of money,» answers Roman Semyonovich.

The stranger stabs Roman Semyonovich in the stomach, searches him and takes some money. Then he quickly disappears into the darkness.»

The doctor on duty leaves the room, followed by the nurse. Karina in

Horrified by what she saw, she still does not understand what is happening. Karina’s father enters the room, sits on the bed and kisses her on the cheek.

«It’s probably just from fatigue,» Karina says in a whisper.

– Did you say something? – asks the father.

«Hi dad, no, you probably heard it wrong,» Karina comes to her senses.

– How’s your health?

– Okay, the doctor said that in two hours you can go home. How’s Dick?

– It’s normal, he came running after me to bring me to you.

– Tell me more about this.

– Yesterday you went for a walk, I turned on the TV and started watching a movie. Then there was a strong wind, rain, thunderstorm, lightning. I began to worry, I wondered where you were. I hear barking in the yard, I open the door, Dick is standing on the threshold. As soon as he saw me, he immediately rushed to the gate. Then I realized that something had happened to you.

– What happened to me?

– — He brought me to you, you were lying unconscious under a tree. I took you

picked him up and carried him home, then called an ambulance. The doctor suggested that you might have been struck by lightning.

«He told you about this too,» says Karina thoughtfully.

– — Did you remember anything?

– Nothing, except that she went for a walk with Dick and that’s it.

«Nothing, the main thing is that everything worked out okay,» says the father, stroking Karina’s head with his hand.

«You’re right,» says Karina and hugs her father tightly.

Chapter No. 3

Karina and her father enter the yard and Dick begins to bark loudly at Karina. She approaches him, Dick whines and climbs into the booth.

– Dick, it’s me – Karina.

– What’s going on, why does he greet you so angrily?

– — I don’t know, he’s never behaved like this before.

The father comes to the booth, sits down and calls Dick. Dick growls at him and doesn’t come out.

– Strange.

– Leave him alone, maybe he was imagining something.

– May be.

The next day, Karina turns on the TV and watches the local news with her father. A correspondent stands near a residential building and begins to report. Police officers and onlookers stand nearby.

– — Tonight there was a daring attack on the chief doctor of our city, Roman Semenovich Stepin. At approximately twelve o’clock at night, an unknown person stabbed him in the stomach and fled the scene.

How would you comment on this crime? – the correspondent addresses the man in a police uniform.

Standing nearby is police major, investigator Oleg Ivanovich Grachev, forty-seven years old, average height, dark hair, strong build. Smart, agile,

principled, always sees things through to the end.

– — Now we are carrying out investigative measures, interrogating people living in this house. Maybe someone saw something or knows something,» Grachev answers.

– But the murder was committed late at night, it’s unlikely that anyone could have seen the criminal.

– — I repeat, investigative measures are underway to establish the identity of the criminal. We will try to do everything possible to find and punish to the fullest extent of the law.

– — Now you have heard the commentary of the police major and investigator on this high-profile case, Oleg Ivanovich Grachev.

The father saw Karina’s frightened eyes and immediately hugged her.

– Are you okay?

«I’m scared,» Karina answered and began to cry.

– — I understand that this is the same doctor who was alive yesterday. But understand that we are all mortals and maybe this is his fate,» Karina’s father reassures.

– You don’t understand, yesterday I knew that he would be killed! – Karina shouted.

– — Wait, how could you know? – the father asks in surprise.

– — Before leaving the room, the doctor shook my hand.

– Well, so what, everyone does it.

– — You don’t understand, immediately after the squeeze, visions began to appear before my eyes in which some unfamiliar man with a hood on his head was killing him and taking the money.

– — What are you talking about, how could you see all this, you need to see a doctor.

– — Dad, but it’s true, I really saw the moment of the murder! The father got up from the sofa and began to walk around the room, back and forth.

– I hope you are not going to go to the police. If you tell them, they will think you’re crazy!

– But the criminal is free, if he is not stopped, he can kill more innocent people.

The father decided to calm down and sat down on the sofa again.

«You still haven’t seen his face,» he tried to convey his truth to his daughter.

– — I can try to repeat it in the morgue, shake hands, maybe it will work.

– Well, why do you need this!

– — Maybe because you taught me justice.

– -What’s happening in the world

There are thousands of murders every day, you can’t help everyone.

– — I need to get to the morgue.

– — I see you cannot be convinced. Okay, let’s go. They get into a Lada car and go to the morgue.

Chapter No. 4

Karina knocks on the morgue door from the back entrance. The door is opened by a man of about thirty, tall, thin, long blond hair braided in a ponytail, a cigarette in his mouth.

– How can I help you? – asks the man.

«We should look at the corpse,» Karina answers.

– Are you from the police?

– No.

– — So it’s not allowed. Karina whispers in her father’s ear:

– Dad, give me a thousand rubles.

– Are you going to offer him money? – the father is indignant.

– — Do you have better options?

The father takes a thousand rubles out of his pocket and hands it to the man. The man smiles and puts the money in his pocket.

– — We should have started with this right away. So who exactly are you interested in?

«The doctor should have been brought to you tonight,» says Karina. The man lets them into the morgue building:

– — There is one, but why do you need it?

«It’s none of your business,» Karina answers in a serious tone.

The man brings Karina and her father to a room in which there are corpses of recently arrived people. There are iron tables, on them lie the dead, covered with a white sheet.

Karina covers her nose with a handkerchief from the heavy smell.

– Where is our doctor? – asks Karina.

The man approaches the table closest to Karina and takes off the sheet.

– Here he is at your service.

Karina feels bad, she covers her mouth with her hand and runs out into the corridor. A man comes out behind her and opens the door to the toilet next to her. Karina runs to the toilet and starts vomiting. Ten minutes later she returns to the room and takes the deceased’s hand, squeezing her hand tightly.

– Are you okay? – father hugs his daughter. Karina looks at the deceased:

– I’m fine.

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