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<\/span><\/a><\/p>\nThe ice cracked so loudly that Anna didn\u2019t even understand at first what had happened. She was walking along the city pond with an ordinary grocery bag. Inside were two loaves of bread and the cheapest cookies. The day was already turning toward evening, the snow around was pink from the sunset, and Anna was hurrying home.<\/p>\n
Then she saw something strange.<\/p>\n
In the middle of the pond, where the ice was always thinner, a man was struggling in the black water. His expensive coat was soaked and pulling him down. He clung to the edge of the ice hole with his hands, but the ice kept breaking again and again.<\/p>\n
\u201cHelp\u2026\u201d he forced out, almost without a voice, as if he no longer had the strength to shout.<\/p>\n
Anna turned sharply. People were standing on the shore. A woman in an expensive fur coat pressed her hand to her mouth and froze in place. A man in a sports jacket took out his phone but didn\u2019t take a single step forward. A couple of teenagers glanced at each other and quickly walked away, as if they hadn\u2019t seen anything.<\/p>\n
\u201cSomeone call the rescuers!\u201d the woman shouted, but she herself remained standing still.<\/p>\n
Anna looked at the man and remembered the words her mother used to tell her. She always said that you must never go out onto the ice. But she also said something else \u2014 if a person is in trouble, you can\u2019t just turn away.<\/p>\n
Anna didn\u2019t remember how she ended up on the pond. She only suddenly realized that she was running. Her boots were slipping, her fingers were going numb from the cold, and her heart was pounding so loudly that it drowned out all the sounds around her. She lay down on the ice and began to crawl.<\/p>\n
\u201cHold on! I\u2019ll help you!\u201d she shouted, stretching out her scarf.<\/p>\n