How Rubba and Eraser were talking about their planets

Eraser’s new friend Rubba is looking into the sky and counting stars. One of them is falling down, and she makes a wish, “I want to fly to the Moon,
And think it will happen so soon.
The Moon is so bright and so clear,
And seems to be so close and near…”

 

“Aha… The Moon… Where is that?” asked Eraser. “In the sky,” replied Rubba
“Is it where you live?” insisted Eraser.
“No, silly”, Rubba hummed. “I live on Nibiru, the planet Nibiru”.
“What is it like?” asked Eraser. “As for me, Nibiru is the most beautiful planet ever in the Universe,” Rubba started telling. “It is even called a planet with shining crown, and…”

 

 

 But she hasn’t finished yet, when Eraser interrupted her.
“Hang on! Are you kidding me? I know that the crown can be worn only by the kings or the queens”.
“This is no way I’m going to agree. Why only kings or queens?” She was surprised.

“Our planet belongs to Gods, and all its dwellers are their inheritors, that’s why all of them have the right to wear a crown. Our crowns have one distinguishing mark – a sign of Nibiru, a planet in a shape of a bird with wings. It has a red body in the middle, flashing from inside with fluorescent light. Look at it! So, it sometimes is called a red planet. It looks attractive.

 “If this is so, then the Earth should also have the right to wear a crown,” Eraser didn’t want to give up.
“Why is the Earth so special?” asked Rubba, and then continued, “Our nation believes that Nibiru was a travelling ship, where Gods lived. That proves its uniqueness”.
Eraser dived into a deep thought. Then he came to his senses.
“There… there, hem… there is something special on the Earth that the other planets don’t have, and which isn’t on Nibiru…” he was slow to give his arguments. After some hesitation he heard,
“So, what’s that?” Rubba insisted.
“Well, hem… that is… well, flowers”, the first thought came to his mind, “there are no flowers on other planets!” he shouted.
“What flowers?” Rubba repeated, “I have never heard of them”, she agreed. “How do they look like? Why do you need them?”
“You only have a look at them!” Eraser said. “Look, they are so beautiful, and then, they smell fabulously! Here, take!”

Eraser handed the flower to her. Rubba stared at it with astonishment. A flower was a stunningly beautiful, shiny velvet red rose, which shed sweet heady fragrance.
“Oh, really, it’s unusual. I didn’t see anything like that,” Rubba said with utter amazement.
“That’s it”, Eraser added proudly “You are right, Eraser, the Earth is really a very interesting place”, Rubba nodded,
“Yes!”

  “It has a lot of mysterious and wonderful things”, Eraser got a swelled head.
“Can you tell me anything else?” asked Rubba with hope.
“Sure, I will show something to you next time”.
“I’ll be looking forward to meeting you for our next travel”, her eyes were shining with some deep purple glow.
“Rumor has it that Nibiru inhabitants don’t have emotions, and cannot speak any languages. How then I could understand what she asked me about?” Eraser was bewildered. Then the idea flashed in his mind, “Telepathy! She got to know everything by telepathic sensing! I think she percepts the surrounding the other way we do”. Eraser was going and thinking, going and thinking…
 

The story was invented and retold by Vlada Manoylo, 14 years of age, school 10, year 9, has been learning English with club “TAMRA” for 3 years.

 
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