“...Another person in Kolchin’s place would have started pinching himself in order to wake up, but for some reason Kylya thought that everything was exactly how it should be. There is nothing surprising in the fact that the gaze of the small black eyes of his killed and skinned beaver friend rushed into his eyes, forcing him to feel what was happening. And don’t think that it’s in a dream that you see beaver claws and teeth digging into the edge of the well lid, lifting it, moving it... The fact that the cat Barsik with his paws helps the beaver cope with the cast-iron lid is also not necessarily surprising. Everything is exactly as it should be. Kylya didn’t even wonder for what purpose the cat and the zombie beaver clung to this heavy lid…”