Car rolled under the gate, young woman get off, her hair was dark halfway, and in the second half were brighter, she had golden eyes.

She was going to Father, her mother was dead for ten years, and more specifically from New Year's Eve 10 years ago.

She drove under the gate, she left the car and opened a wooden gate.

- You are finally. Told her father who stood in the doorway door.

- You really did not think about exchanging this gate on automatic?

- Why? So that you do not have dont to get off with car twice a year. Father always had to call the fact that he never visits him from the family.

She rolled her eyes, entering inside.

- It's for you. She said handing his bag with a bottle of vodka.

- Thanks, although you know that I do not like Vodka from shop.

After a while, they were sitting at the table on which there was a chessboard, in small plates there were cucumbers, sausage, ham, cheese, two glasses and a bottle of homemade moonshine.

They played chess until it was an hour and a half to midnight.

- Do you prefer to go to the dam or watch the fireworks on the balcony? She asked

- I don't go out at all. He said

- Why?

Her father looked at her wearily, drank the contents of the glass in one gulp and sighed.

- I think it's time you found out the truth ... He said ... Your mother is not missing, she was ... Murdered.

Ella felt a cold sweat cover her.

- Why ... Why are you saying this only now?

- Because you wouldn't believe ... I didn't fucking believe it myself ... But from the beginning. Ten years ago, on New Year's Eve, me and your mom went to the dam, opened the champagne, watched the fireworks when something growled loudly. At the end of the street lamp light, someone ... Something was standing and staring at us. This thing roared like a lion and jumped to us in one leap ... It grabbed your mother and leapt into the water. I rushed after them, I almost drowned myself, but they were gone. The morning after I woke up, after I had drunk and passed out, I made up this fairy tale about the disappearance. I do not go out after dark, because I am afraid that this something will come back to finish what has started ... He drank the contents of the glass and moved the chess pawn ... You have lost