𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖘𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖞 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖘𝖊𝖆 𝖘𝖍𝖊-𝖍𝖊𝖉𝖌𝖊𝖍𝖔𝖌

      Prince Sonic and princess Sally picked out a tuxedo and wedding dress at the market, and then rode a chariot back home to the palace. The guards opened the gates for them and let them into the palace. When they arrived, the gate was closed behind them. True, their uncle did not greet them as he had promised, and the prince and princess had to enter the palace themselves. They entered the dining room and saw that their servant Silver was sitting at the table, between Amy and Rouge, drinking tea, and Maria bringing him a roll for breakfast. Even the prince's uncle sat quietly at the table and read to himself a news newspaper with a drawing instead of a photograph. — WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE??? — Sonic shouted at the top of his lungs and everyone except Sally paid attention to him. — O! Prince Sonic, princess Sally, are you back yet? — Eggman asked. — Yes, we’ll quickly! Only to the market for wedding clothes and back. Well, except that they were delayed for a couple of minutes because of the strikers who got in the way. — I know. They even write about them in newspapers now. — Uncle pointed to the newspaper he was reading. — Okay, okay! What happened here? Why isn't your servant working and why are you treating him like... Sonic? — asked Sally. — It's a long story. In general, our guests, as it turned out, were from the trade union and helped us realize that we were in vain treating Silver like a thing, since he is already trying to be good for us and do everything better so that we respect him and love him like that at least once , what he is. — Maria explained. — A! Well, then this... — the prince began to twirl his index fingers near his chest and did not know how to explain to Silver himself: — Silver... You are... Forgive us! — It's okay, prince. — the white hedgehog reassured him, holding out his left palm for a second. Amy looked at Sonic and winked at him, hinting that it was her idea. Although Rouge helped her partly in order to help Silver. Sonic smiled back at the hedgehog and shook his head slightly, thinking that she was really very kind, that she was ready to help even those whom someone did not respect. After they settled that conflict about Silver, Sonic and Sally also sat down at the table. Everyone took a slice of bread and strawberry jam from the jar. Everyone except Sally, of course, spread jam on the top of the bread, while Sally spread jam on the bottom of her sandwich. Of course, this didn’t bother anyone, because they knew that it was customary for Sally in her kingdom and she was simply used to spreading her sandwiches this way. Plus, it tastes better when the butter or jam goes straight onto your tongue and into your mouth. While they were sitting like that, eating and still discussing something about Silver, the former mermaid thought that it probably wouldn’t hurt for her to go to the market and buy new clothes for herself. Tearing out one extra sheet of paper from her notebook, she wrote on it that she had gone to the market herself and left a note on her plate from under the finished sandwich. Then she got up and left the dining room. No one even noticed that she was gone. No one except the witch herself. She stood up and followed her to the exit. — Where are you going? — “Have I was noticed? Oh, that is! How to where? I also want to go to the market to buy new clothes. Maybe I’ll even buy something for myself for my future wedding.” — the hedgehog explained in her thoughts. — But you don’t have money. — Rouge explained. — In this world, everything is not given or received for nothing. — "Nothing. I think this is enough. At least I hope Prince Sonic won't mind." — Amy thought, taking out a bag of gold coins and showing it to the witch, after which she hid them back to herself where she got it from. — Then can I go with you? It wouldn’t hurt for me to change my outfit, otherwise it’s kind of dark and gloomy. — asked the witch. — "Fine. Went!" — the former mermaid agreed. — I'm going with you, girls. — they heard Maria’s voice. They changed clothes and got ready to go together. Lomar the crab, hiding behind the mirror, watched them and quietly crawled up to Rouge's long dress, latched onto it, crawled along it like a spider and grabbed the top edge of the dress like a belt hook. The witch turned around for a second, feeling as if someone was watching them and not seeing anyone, she decided that she must have imagined it. The prince’s guards, oddly enough, since the guests were well received by the prince, and also because the daughter of the royal cook herself was with them, opened the gates to the palace and the main gates outside for them. The sea urchin and the octopus bat, holding each other's hands, together with Maria, walked through the village, not paying attention to anyone. The rest of the village, when they noticed them, were a little jealous of how beautiful and cute they were. And someone even mistakenly thought that they might be a couple, although in reality this is not the case. Rose accompanied the witch to the market, since she had memorized the way since yesterday. Even Maria did not lag behind them. To their surprise, they met a protesting crowd of people who were still on strike against the rich, and for the freedom of the poor, hungry and homeless. Among them they saw Hans Anderson himself. He also protested against such a life and injustice. Maria recognized him immediately. — Hans? — she asked him. — Maria? — Hans was distracted from the protest and put his sign aside, hugging her. — Long time no see? — It’s only been three years since we’ve seen each other. — she answered him. — Yeah. You've become so grown up. — Anderson was amazed. — Sorry, Anderson, but we have a strike here, not a community. — Knuckles immediately distracted him until he paid attention to the girls. — O! Hello! — Hello, Knuckles. How is it going!? — asked Maria. — We have a strike here, as you can see. So far we have not found support, but we do not give up and continue to strike as best we can. — explained the echidna. — By the way, who are these two? — he asked and Maria herself introduced them to Rouge and Amy, who they were and where they came from, as Rouge herself described them. What struck Hans and Knuckles the most was that Amy has no voice and therefore cannot talk. — Oh, we are very sorry for you! — Knuckles sympathized. — Me too. —Anderson lowered his head. — “I’m too so sorry! Although, on the other hand, I wouldn’t have gotten my legs and would never have known how you were doing on land.” — the hedgehog herself was thinking at that time. — But other than that, maybe all is not lost yet! — Knuckles said and called his friend. — Miles! Miles! Come please! One of the strikers approached them with a two-tailed fox. — Knuckles, I told you for the hundredth time that I don’t like that name. Just call me Tails! — Sorry, Tails. Do you see that beautiful she-hedgehog? — He pointed at Amy. — Yes? And what? — She's mute. She can’t speak at all, but would really like to learn how to speak. — Knuckles explained with deep sorrow. — Well, it doesn’t matter! Come with me! — the fox extended his hand to the hedgehog. She looked around a little hesitantly and wondered whether she should trust him. Knuckles nodded at her, and then Rouge did the same. Apparently her have to trust and go with this fox. She extended her palm to Tails's and they walked out of the market together. — I suppose you came to the market itself? — Hans asked Maria. — Yes, we want to buy ourselves some new clothes to change into. — answered the girl. Knuckles and Hans asked the strikers to let the girls pass them by. Afterwards they returned to their place and continued to strike.

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      Tails took Amy to his personal shop in the market, which was closed, opened a secret entrance in the floor and went down with the hedgehog to the basement. In his basement there were a lot of different things, more like magic things. In fact, these were all inventions. — Come in, sit down! These are all my inventions. I invent various devices, machines and even automata. True, many do not recognize my work and think that I am a cuckoo. But I do not care. I know who I think I am. A step forward in the evolution of all humanity and technology. I invented many devices here and tested them on myself, as well as on my friends. For example, a boomerang shield, knightly armor, with the help of which you can even fly into the sky and even fly to the moon, an aircraft with a bicycle, a house on wheels, and even my main brainchild. A perpetual motion machine I'm trying to make using solar panels with a light bulb. The point is that the light from the light bulb will fall on the solar battery, it will be charged from it, and then one half of the energy will be supplied to the lamp itself so that it burns endlessly to the solar battery, and the other half will go to some other device, for example. This is the essence of a perpetual motion machine. True, I haven’t finished it yet and haven’t tested it yet. But the most important and new invention, which I worked on a month ago and finished, but have not yet tested on anyone, is a mind-reading machine. — the fox showed the hedgehog this device, which looked like a beautiful hat with a bow, but at the same time, it was also shrouded in wires and other devices and a pair of speakers. — It works very simply. The one who puts it on... The main thing is that the machine itself is turned on. She will read his thoughts from his head and transfer them to his ears through the speakers. The main thing is to try to think about something or, with the help of thoughts, pretend that you are communicating and your device will transmit your thoughts into the ear, so that everyone begins to understand you when communicating. Amy liked this hat machine and what the fox told her about how it works. She couldn't wait to try it on and try it on herself. Maybe then she will at least be able to speak using her thoughts? — Do you like it? Tails asked and Rose nodded at him. — Do you want to try it on? — he asked her also and she nodded again. — Fine! Get dressed! Miles puts the same hat with instruments on the hedgehog's head. Despite them, the hat itself was very light on the hedgehog’s head. The fox turned on the machine itself by pressing the red switch and the hedgehog tried to think about something: — “How I like this world of people.” — she just thought and the mind-reading machine immediately transmitted her thoughts audibly, so that she even heard them herself through the speakers on her hat. — "Oh! Is that what I said? In thoughts? Oh! Again!" — she was a little scared, but from her thoughts she recognized her own voice, which she doesn’t have now. - "Great! Now I can talk with my thoughts? — Certainly! And I’m so glad that the car still works. You can take it for yourself and wear it if you want. — “A-a-ah. Don’t you need it yourself?” — Amy asked mentally. — No, I'm an inventor. And I also have drawings. Therefore, if anything, I’ll make at least a thousand of the same things for myself, and then distribute them to some others. — the fox explained, took out a rag and began to wipe the dust off the large glass lens for the TV. — "Okay! And thanks." — Amy thanked Tails mentally, turned off the device herself, took it off her head and carried it with her in her hands, going out along the stairs. — Enjoy it to your health!