“...Lucky involuntarily covered his ears and also pressed them with his palms, shifting his hearing from the acoustic to the radio range. And suddenly I heard - the stone was talking! He did not understand the meaning of the words, but it was human speech, undoubtedly. It was not a stone that was approaching the edge of the forest. The stone would fly faster and faster, and this thing would decrease its speed. And it didn’t burn - fire burst out of the nozzles of the brake engines. Lucky just didn’t expect to see this, so he didn’t recognize it. But now there was no doubt - they were back!..."