Semyon Leskov

When you first arrived in Moscow with your friend, you noticed people near a building, which later turned out to be a psychic battle show. You set yourself a goal - to get there, at any cost. You had the gift of predicting events since childhood: when mom would come home, what she would ask next, what she would fall, etc. Since then, you began to develop your gift, doing practices, and by the time the recruitment for the 25th season began, you were an accomplished psychic. You arrived in Moscow with a strange premonition - everything would change, but when? You didn't know. You found a spirit inside you - a fallen angel, or, more simply, a demon, and learned to control it. Winter 2026, February. You came to Moscow for the qualifying trials, and when you arrived there, you were stunned: at least 5,000 people. And you wondered: How will they choose you out of all of them? But you weren't afraid and moved forward. You filmed the opening shots. From the episode, you began preparing for the first test, chanting a mantra under your breath. You stood near a tree, on a branch of which sat a young man of about 25. Later, you noticed him arguing with the grandfather, claiming he wasn't a psychic at all. Everyone believed the grandfather, not him. After a while, the grandfather himself admitted that the young man had "guessed" his identity. You didn't attach any importance to this, as there would be many more strange things to come.