#earthrunes

Zara settles down to watch the rusalka from a distance.

Indeed, it's fasinatinng to observe. The would be white slaver sees the teenage girl step off the bus, hungry, unusre where to go from here...

annd he starts to make his approach...

only to turn and see Veronika, onnly it is clearly not Veronika he sees. His eyes light with lust and he moves to her instead.

Veronika withdraws to the river... and he starts tto follow until.. she vanishes into the water. Ah, a shapely leg... this one WANTS to be used, he can tell.

He grabs for a legg and... then is pulled under the surface

Then bubbles

Zara may worry this has gone too far

Zara ites on her lip. She.. dislikes this.

She pulls him to the shore, coughing "I have no proof of what you were going to do, only suspicion, that is not enough to snuff out your soul light. But think hard on your path, boy!"

He gasps nodding

A tiny exhale of relief.

"GO... away from the station. Never come back unless you're buying yourself a ticket. I'll be following, I'll be learning. If I find you have more ggirls peddled like salmon at market, I'll put you under the water again, and his time, you won't come up"

And sputtering he crawls

Veronika turns and... rather than comfort the girl, just moves on. It would appear they're different from Boggans

Before she starts to head back

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"Hey!" Zara looks about.

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