About the book: year / - And what should I do, protector of innocent maidens? Or maybe you, Larisa, can tell me? - Catching my gaze, he turns directly to me for the first time. I shudder and hide my face in Lowe's chest. “I’m already afraid to even return to my own house, so as not to scare you again.” - Is it true? - Low continues to mock. - But I heard a different story. Something about a car smashed to pieces and a long picnic under the pine trees. In very cordial company. - Laurel! - almost a roar. - No? Under the Christmas trees? I always confuse them - my legs can hardly hold me up from fear, but he is having fun, as if Drakos himself had possessed him! - Well, forgive me, you know: botany is not my thing. “On the Other Side of the Abyss”, chapter 8. Sidebar to the second part of “VDG” The story begins immediately after Larisa is rescued from the herd and moved to Ankhen’s house.