Permission to Report!

With such precision, ordinary Pinyokov carried out the senior’s instructions—with such dash—that the space couldn’t stand it, and… and Pinyokov ended up in a place that was unclear and looked like a fairy tale. Pinyokov talked a little with the locals and then returned to his own world. Everything would be fine, except he left his rifle in the fairy-tale world. And as you know, “For loss and squandering of government property…” Pinyokov had to go back—not only to find the lost rifle, but also to restore social justice among the gnomes and the “bubbling” folk, because “there is no God but God, and Corporal Pinyokov is His Verifier”…