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Everyone chuckled and began to disperse in different directions.

- Stop! Vikta called after them. The couple lingered and looked hopefully at their goat, but most didn't even slow down. “But what if I give you… another horse!”

“Where is she?” the freak asked, and when Vikta hesitated, he continued. “We can catch two fatter ones ourselves. Why do we need to take you somewhere for this?

With these words, he turned and walked away.

“I know where the meat is,” Vikta called out. - Human flesh.

Everyone froze at once and slowly turned around.

- And where?

Vikta opened her mouth, but immediately closed it. For a while, she couldn't get a word out of herself. What she was preparing to offer them was monstrous.

“Not far from where you ate my horse,” she finally decided. “There is a lake near here, the water in which comes out with steam.

- We don't go there. It's too hot and there are a lot of stones, - one of the freaks waved his paw.

- There is a boy. And not alone. I can bring them to you,”