Ladaka is a place where you can relax from everyday hustle and bustle in a cozy home environment. Such ads are full of advertising travel agencies. This is actually a small planet, most of which is covered by the ocean, on which green islands are scattered, a quiet place, a warm hospitable world. Ladaka is a fertile place for families with children, so there are so many of them here. Children rush through the streets, not paying attention to passers-by, especially at the end of the school day.

“Mey! Give it back, it's mine!”

“And you catch up!”

Two children ran down the street. They were Lu Tan and Song Mey, who were ten years old that year. Mey cheerfully ran away from Tan holding a gold medallion in her hand, she didn’t need it at all, she just wanted to tease her classmate. Running past the house where Tang lived. The children were stopped by Lu Tai by Tang's older brother. The elder brother was then fourteen years old.

“Mey, return the locket, please!” Tai said angrily.

“So, the medallion of your family! Now I know and I can tell everyone who you are!” Mey replied, indignant at Tai's tone.

“Friends don't give away secrets!”

“Okay, then you have to surprise me with something!”

Mey returned the medallion to Tan and ran away to her house. Later, sitting at the dinner table, Tai again remembered the act of his younger brother. The pilgrim bird medallion has always belonged to the Lu Tai family and has been passed down from generation to generation for the past seven hundred years. The medallion hid secrets that the younger brother was to learn soon. Tai didn't care if Mey had anything to say. He knew her family and respected them. He was more worried about his brother, because he was irresponsible about the family heirloom.

At dinner, Tai raised the topic of the medallion once more: “If father finds out that you took the medallion without asking, he will punish us. Why did you take it?”

“We played!” Tan replied calmly.

“You know it's not a toy!”

“How will you surprise Mey?” Tan decided to change the subject of conversation.

“There is something that I myself have not seen yet, one of these days we will go look.”

On this topic, the medallion was closed. Tan has never taken the medallion without permission since then.

In Ladak, Tan and Tai have lived with their father's mother for the last five years. Parents worked at the rescue station in shifts that lasted a month and a half, so the brothers lived an independent life. After school, they spent the rest of the day at the seaside. Mey was Tan's classmate, she was an excellent student, she liked Tan and she always helped him in his studies if necessary. Mey was originally from the Song Dynasty, but due to a quarrel between her father and grandfather, she had to leave the planet Haksin. After the death of her father from a DNA anomaly, her mother did not return home to her relatives.

A few days later, Tai fulfilled his promise. They met on the outskirts of the village and climbed the dried-up drainage channel up the mountain to the old rusty navigation tower that towered over the village. After decommissioning, they wanted to demolish the tower, but the locals asked to leave it, as it offered a gorgeous view of the seaside village and mountains. There was not a single inhabitant in the village who at least once did not meet the sunset on the tower, a favorite place for teenagers.

“Tai, I have climbed this tower many times!”

Mey, we will climb to the very top so that you can see Mount Lida. Behind the mountain is a deep-sea bay. They say that a large ship is hiding in it. My classmate's father works at the port, he says that they have banned flights from eight to nine. At this time, a large ship should take off.

It took the children about half an hour to climb to the very top of the tower, from which a beautiful evening panorama opened up. In the west, the sun slowly sank into a haze below the ocean horizon, and in the east, the tops of the mountains burnt out with a red glow, dissolving in the depths of ultramarine.

“Tai, it's eight o'clock at night and nothing's happening. I'm bored! Good thing we got food!” Mey, dissatisfied, took out a sandwich from her backpack.

“Mey, Tang, something is appearing over the mountain!” Tai exclaimed.

Everyone looked closely at Mount Lida, a little further above the mountain something flashed. The prow of the ship appeared in the rays of the setting sun. More and more the ship rose above the mountain, it was huge like a mountain and burned in the rays of the sunset like red-hot metal.

“This ship is the pride of Atauda. They say that once a year he flies away and will return only after two months.” Tai broke the silence.

The ship rose even higher, its chromed hull reflecting the gold of the setting sun. Water poured from the ship's hull in torrential rain.

“He's bigger than a mountain!” Mey was surprised.

“When I grow up, I will become a pilot of such a ship!” Tai said dreamily.

“Do not even think about it! I will be a pilot!” Mey chuckled.

The ship flew over the mountains, rising higher and higher above the horizon. Finally turned into one of the brightest stars in the evening sky.