\"What do you mean?\" Majka asked sternly, ready with another spoonful of honey and mint and something violet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Well, because we ghosts don't have illnesses like you do,\" Ka\u0161ko tried to explain his reluctance to Majka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"What kind of illnesses do you have?\"<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Well, we have...\" Ka\u0161ko wanted to say something, but Majka's eyes lit up and she was already pushing her little couch closer to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Thank you, I'm pleased that...\" whispered Ka\u0161ko.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"So, lie down here on the couch and tell me something about your childhood,\" Majka sat down with Max\u00edk next to Ka\u0161ko and they picked up their schoolbooks and pens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Why should he tell you anything about his childhood?\" Ka\u0161ko didn't understand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"I saw a movie where there was a doctor who treated mental illness, and he did it by having someone sit on a couch and talk about their childhood and...\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"But I don't have mental illnesses,\" Ka\u0161ko said, almost offended, and his tail began to shake strangely, as if he wanted to fly away but didn't have enough strength to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"But you're a ghost...\" Majka continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"And that's why I have ghost illnesses and not mental illnesses,\" Ka\u0161ko tried to explain as clearly as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Oh, and how are those treated?\" They picked up their pens and schoolbooks again and waited for an answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"You see, we, ghosts, like to fly, but when we get sick, we have to be treated underground,\" Ka\u0161ko tapped his tail on the floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"You mean we have to bury you underground?\" Majka couldn't believe her ears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Like potatoes?\" Max\u00edk wanted to join the discussion, but somehow it didn't work out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Oh no, stop it, you're scaring me,'\" Ka\u0161ko asked the siblings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"So, what should we do?\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"I need speleotherapy,\" Ka\u0161ko replied without hesitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"And where can we buy that?\" Both siblings got up from the ground, ready to quickly buy something they didn't know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"You don't know what that is?\" Ka\u0161ko couldn't understand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"No,\" Max\u00edk and Majka replied in unison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"It's healing in a cave.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"In a cave?\" Ka\u0161ko's best friends looked at each other, not believing their ears and thinking he was hallucinating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"The temperature in caves is great, and there are various minerals and air and... well, simply put, we, ghosts from Haravara, go to a cave for healing, where this treatment has been practiced for several thousand years,\" he explained to Max\u00edk and Majka, who shook their heads in disbelief.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"And where is that?\" Max\u00edk was the first to recover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"In the Gombasek Cave.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"But you can't fly,\" Max\u00edk pondered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"No, I can't,\" Ka\u0161ko looked at his almost limp body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"So, how do we get there?\" Majka asked timidly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"By train to Ro\u017e\u0148ava and by bus to Gombasek,\" Ka\u0161ko stretched out his sick arm and showed them where it was on the map.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Let's go for it, then,\" Majka got up from the ground and put down her pen and psychotherapy workbook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The children packed up at lightning speed and took Ka\u0161ko's spirit on their shoulders. Like any proper spirit, he weighed only 16 grams and, of course, no one could see him\u2014except for Majka and Max\u00edk. They travelled exactly as Ka\u0161ko had told them and arrived at a strangely beautiful place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Ka\u0161ko, but this doesn't look like a cave, it looks like a super children's park,\" Majka looked around in disbelief, unable to understand how come they had never been here to play before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Well, this is the Gombasek complex, where families with children usually go,\" whispered Ka\u0161ko.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"And how do you know that?\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"I came here recently to see Kleof\u00e1\u0161,\" Ka\u0161ko replied without hesitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Who?\" asked his siblings almost simultaneously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"My ghost friend, who was also being treated here.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"But where is the cave?\" Max\u00edk searched for a hole in the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Here on this hill\u2014we just have to walk past this beautiful lake, around these wooden barbecue pits, and...\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"What?\" Majka interrupted his flow of words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Families come here to barbecue and spend time,\" Ka\u0161ko explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Oh,\" Majka understood, and probably Max\u00edk too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"And then around these statues and we'll be there.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"But it's probably closed now,\" Max\u00edk said sadly and began to worry about Ka\u0161ko, who was getting weaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"That's what we're here for.\" Ka\u0161ko blinked at least one eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Huh?\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Well, because we ghosts heal a little lower down, in the corridors where you humans don't go on tours.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"How come?\" Majka felt a little offended that the Haravara ghosts had some kind of advantage again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Every cave is bigger than the place where tourists go,\" Ka\u0161ko began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Sure,\" agreed the siblings, \"because there are some places we couldn't crawl through.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Or they're underwater,\" Ka\u0161ko pondered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Or they're tiny,\" added Max\u00edk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Or dangerous,\" Majka's eyes sparkled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"And we heal ourselves in one such chamber\u2014but mind you, today you will meet someone you have never met before and probably didn't even know they still lived in Haravara,\" Ka\u0161ko paused, as if remembering something very serious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Who?\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Well, you'll see.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ka\u0161ko took a kind of whistle out of his pocket, whistled a tune, and in a moment two new ghosts were standing next to them. As it turned out, they were the cave administrators. They had a bit of a problem with Max\u00edk and Majka going into the cave, but when Ka\u0161ko vouched for them and they proved that they were truly so exceptional that they could see them, they took them both on some kind of carts, reminiscent of hospital carts but without wheels, and off they went.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, they went\u2014they flew, straight underground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Stooooooooooooooooooooooooooop,\" Ka\u0161ko suddenly shouted with his last ounce of strength, and everyone stopped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"We forgot this,\" Ka\u0161ko pointed to the wall and the siblings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"What is it?\" Max\u00edk asked Ka\u0161ko as he handed him a box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Your magic plant, so you can walk through walls with us.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Max\u00edk and Majka chewed the plant and imagined what would have happened if Ka\u0161ko hadn't stopped them. They would probably have been treated in that cave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After a short while, they were flying underground. They flew through the beautiful halls of the Gombasek Cave. They learned that there was even a stalactite or stalagmite or some other thing that you could touch and stroke for good luck, which you don't have in other caves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cKa\u0161ko?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Yes,\" Ka\u0161ko replied to Majka with his last ounce of energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"And people don't get treated here?\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"You mean with our method?\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Yeah.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"They used to be treated, but now there are fewer of them,\" Ka\u0161ko smiled, because apparently the fact that people are less often treated in caves suits them - the ghosts of the Haravara land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"And why?\" Majka asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"I don't know,\" Ka\u0161ko admitted and continued, \"even though speleotherapy began in the Gombasek Cave as the first cave, not only in Haravara, but also in the surrounding countries.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Well then,\" Majka dreamed, already looking forward to those cave adventures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"A few years ago, this cave was even listed as a World Natural Heritage Site,\" Ka\u0161ko recalled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"And why was that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Because it's a beautiful cave and there are things in it that you won't find anywhere else in the world,\" Ka\u0161ko gave a timid smile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"And what is that?\" Max\u00edk and Majka asked curiously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"That's what heals us,\" Ka\u0161ko smiled even more mysteriously, and it seemed that he was already completely healed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"And what is that?\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Majka and Max\u00edk looked around, unable to believe their eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Wow. What is that?\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Those are sinter straws,\" Ka\u0161ko replied as wisely as he could.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"What?\" his friends didn't understand at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"They're thin, strange straws,\" Ka\u0161ko tried to explain the inexplicable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Like straws?\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Exactly, but they're made of a mineral and...\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"And how do they treat you?\" Max\u00edk couldn't wait, because he couldn't imagine how these things sticking out of the wall like thin straws or small drops could treat anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Um...\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ka\u0161ko didn't finish his sentence, and then it happened. A giant slowly approached them from behind a large rock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Good morning, Mr. Ka\u0161ko,\" he said in a deep voice like some kind of performing artist\u2014that is, a reciter\u2014and Majka almost fainted\u2014but not from the voice, but from fear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Hello, Kraso\u0148,\" Ka\u0161ko greeted him politely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Kraso\u0148?\" Majka couldn't believe her ears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Not because he's beautiful, but because he's the giant of the Slovak Karst, where we are right now,\" Ka\u0161ko whispered in Majka's ear so that Kraso\u0148 couldn't hear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Oh, then everything is clear, even though I didn't expect to find a giant here, in the underground,\" Majka admitted, breathing normally now and her eyes no longer so frightened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Imagine what would happen if he appeared above ground,\" Ka\u0161ko laughed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"I'd rather not imagine that,\" said Max\u00edk, who had been sitting with his eyes and mouth wide open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Can we go?\" asked Kraso\u0148.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Of course,\" Ka\u0161ko opened his arms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kraso\u0148 took Ka\u0161ko in one hand, lifted him up to a straw, and growled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"In the part of the Gombasek Cave where people go, there are stalagmites as tall as three metres.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Wow,\" was all Majka and Max\u00edk could say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"But here they are six metres long, see?\" Kraso\u0148 pointed around him, and only then did the two siblings \u2013 the little humans \u2013 realised how beautiful their surroundings were, how magical everything around them was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Some of them are special,\" laughed Ka\u0161ko, who was clearly in a better mood now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Special?\" asked the little humans, now truly expecting anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And then they saw Kraso\u0148 put Ka\u0161ko to a straw, and he began to drink normally through it, as if the ground were a glass of juice and this were a straw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Mother Nature has many secrets, and many of them are hidden in water and underground\u2014and this is one of them,\" Kraso\u0148 winked at them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Wow,\" Max\u00edk and Majka couldn't believe their eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Is that better, Mr. Ka\u0161ko?\" Kraso\u0148 asked politely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"I can already feel the power,\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Mother Earth knows what you need,\" Ka\u0161ko patted him gently on the shoulder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"So, I can slowly start flying,\" Ka\u0161ko stretched and was about to say something\u2014some kind of spell...<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Ha-ha-ha\"\u2014the giant Kraso\u0148 laughed so heartily that visitors to the cave would surely have heard him if there had been any.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Did I say anything funny?\" Ka\u0161ko didn't understand the fit of laughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Your treatment has barely begun,\" Kraso\u0148 whispered in his ear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"But we need to get home by evening,\" Majka remembered her mom and dad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Don't worry, we'll just move to another part, to a hall where people come during the day and admire the little straws and think they're just little drops,\" Kraso\u0148 laughed at people's ignorance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"And aren't they?\" Max\u00edk asked cautiously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kraso\u0148 just smiled, picked Ka\u0161ko up again, sat him on the cart, and moved so fast that Majka and Max\u00edk couldn't keep up with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Suddenly, the cart stopped, or rather, it was stopped by a kind of cord or rope, and when Max\u00edk and Majka looked at the end of the rope, they almost fainted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Have you never seen dwarves before?\", cried a cheerful dwarf in blue suspenders and a strange cap on his head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Only in children's stories,\" was all the shocked Majka could manage to say. Max\u00edk was just standing there staring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Ah, newcomers,\" the dwarf slapped his knees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"These are humans,\" Ka\u0161ko introduced the newcomers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"But, but... what are they doing here in our part of the cave?\" he looked at both dwarves incredulously and suspiciously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Well... \" Ka\u0161ko wanted to explain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"And how come they can see us?\" all the dwarves in the cave, who had not paid any attention to Max\u00edk and Majka until now because they thought they couldn't see them, stood up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"They just can, that's all,\" Ka\u0161ko said curtly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Are they special?\" asked one of the dwarves, looking at Max and May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"They are,\" confirmed Ka\u0161ko, hugging his friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Well, come on in,\" said the dwarf, pointing somewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maxik, Majka, Ka\u0161ko, and the two dwarves entered the hall, where you can also go if you visit the Gombasek Cave, and then they noticed a number of small stalactites and stalagmites on the walls, and behind them about 15 dwarves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"'Pshhh,'\" they whispered, and small hammers appeared in the dwarves' hands, because every proper dwarf has a hammer, and they began to play beautiful music on the stalactites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"I don't understand how they don't break the stalactites with those hammers,\" whispered Majka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Those are hammers that the dwarves make from a special crystal called carillon,\" Ka\u0161ko pointed to a stone in the rock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"What kind?\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Carillon,\" Ka\u0161ko repeated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"But that doesn't exist,\" smiled Max\u00edk, who knows a thing or two about stones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Hmmm, you don't know it, but as you can see, it exists,\" Ka\u0161ko began to move to the rhythm of the hammer music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Everyone fell silent and let themselves be healed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Suddenly, they realised that it was quiet everywhere. The dwarves had finished playing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our friends slowly opened their eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"So, Mr. Ka\u0161ko and his friends, I think you should do one last thing now,\" said one of the dwarves with a mischievous smile, as if from a storybook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"And that is?\" asked Ka\u0161ko.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"To dive properly.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Nooooooooooooooooo,\" cried Majka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Is there a problem, young lady?\" one of the dwarves looked at Majka in confusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"It's just that I don't have a swimsuit, and I can't just dive into the water,\" Majka gasped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"You will dive into yourself.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Into myself?\" Even Ka\u0161ko didn't understand that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"We have a special place for that,\" they slowly left the cave and the dwarf pointed somewhere down into the valley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"An old monastery with a manor house and a tower and...\" the dwarf explained further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Sure thing, I'm flying...\" Ka\u0161ko spread his arms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"But you can't fly yet!\" the dwarf stopped him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"How do we get there?\" asked Ka\u0161ko.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Come on,\" sighed the dwarf, exasperated by his uncomprehending visitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The dwarves led their friends out of the cave and pointed to a sort of tower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Should we jump?\" Majka began to worry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The dwarves just laughed and disappeared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Max\u00edk took a good look at the tower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"It's a zipline!\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"What's that?\" Ka\u0161ko didn't understand a word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"It's a cable car,\" said Max\u00edk, pointing to the cables that led from the tower down somewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"What kind of cable car?\" Majka was now gasping for air too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"You hang on to it, and it takes you somewhere along the cable,\" said Max\u00edk, clearly looking forward to the trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Not somewhere, but as far as I can see, straight to the old monastery.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Majka and Max\u00edk carried 16-gram Ka\u0161ko up to the tower, strapped themselves in, and let themselves down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"The zipline is great,\" exclaimed Max\u00edk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee,\" shouted Ka\u0161ko behind them as they rode. There is no other track like this anywhere in the vicinity, and it takes you all the way to the old monastery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The friends got out and saw a strange window and the beautifully maintained ruins of the monastery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"So, this is where you ghosts come to meditate?\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Also here,\" Ka\u0161ko was finally at a familiar place, \"but we have something here.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"What is it?\" Max\u00edk and Majka waited for another surprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Look at that wall,\" Ka\u0161ko pointed somewhere on the wall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"A hand,\" said the siblings at once, and indeed, all that remained of a larger painting on the wall was a beautiful large hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"What is it doing?\" Majka asked cautiously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"It feels like it's caressing you,\" Max\u00edk examined the hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"It's watching over you\u2014it's a magical hand\u2014under which even we, ghosts, can close our eyes, think of nothing, and nothing will happen to us,\" Ka\u0161ko explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"A mysterious hand will watch over you?\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Exactly,\" Ka\u0161ko sat down under the mysterious hand, which remained on one of the walls that had been preserved here, closed his eyes, and healed himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"What about us?\" his friends looked around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Look,\" Max\u00edk pointed to something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Right next to it stood a small castle with a caf\u00e9 and a kind of window that was not on the wall but just stood on the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"What kind of window is that?\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Ka\u0161ko probably won't tell us, so let's take a look ourselves,\" said Max\u00edk, moving toward the window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"'Awesome, it's almost magical,' whispered Majka when they got to the window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Someone came up with this window into history\u2014when you look through it at the monastery, you can see what the monastery used to look like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"That's great,\" Majka gushed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Max\u00edk and Majka bought some tea and delicious juice, looked through the window, and went to the castle to see a small exhibition of things that were found here when everything was being restored.s<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"We have to bring Dad and Mom here.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"At least for a day.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Exactly, we'll have fun here like never before.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"And we haven't even been to the observation tower yet,\" Max\u00edk discovered another interesting thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Or the places in the cave where people go,\" Majka remembered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And as they were looking at the window, they fell asleep and didn't even notice when Ka\u0161ko, refreshed and relaxed, took them home to their beds.<\/p>\n\n\n
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