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Faddei And The House Monsters

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The streets were long, dark and silent. No light reached the muddy cobbles and wind whistled down the alleyways, making the rickety houses creak. It was this creaking that unnerved the boy as he ran along the inky roads, for the wind made the houses seem to be breathing and the breathing made the houses seem to be alive.
      Faddei wasn't keen on the idea of the apparently inanimate houses being alive. Alive things were dangerous, alive things could pounce on you, alive things could eat you and alive things could hurt you. Especially in the dark, with no one else there.
     As quietly as he could, he tip-toed down the street. He was being silly, he knew he was being silly. The city wasn't that dangerous, not anymore. Everyone, even today, said that once upon a time things had been much worse. Much worse.
        After many small, quick steps, after many heartbeats, after many worried pauses as he stopped to listen for stalking footsteps, Faddei reached his own home. Relieved, the young boy knocked on the door. No breathing house monsters could get him now.
       But something was wrong. No one answered. So he knocked again. And for a second time, no one answered. Faddei remained very still, imagining all the beasts and breathing creatures lurking behind him in the darkness. Slowly, moving as a frozen statue would, he raised his arm to knock once more.
I messed up the rewrite of the prologue :XD: And ended up with a ramble I didn't want, so deleted it all and will start over now. However there was something about the first little bit i liked so I thought I'd throw it up here for LOLs :lmao:

Faddei and the House Monsters! What a title :XD:
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DollyDaze's avatar
So. I've been looking everywhere the pronunciation of this name. And then I come across a link that leads me to here. How very lucky am I? So. Might I ask, what is the correct Russian pronunciation of Faddei?