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IM SCREAMINGGGGG
‘But then an icy hand seized her, pulled her away. She smelled cold water and crushed pine. Over her head a voice was speaking. "Not yet, brother," it said. "Go back."
Vasya could see nothing of the speaker except a curving line of black cloak, but she could see the other, the one-eyed man.‘

BRUH SIR U R A PRIEST

“His hand, roughened with the scythe, slid over her knuckles. He did not speak. Suddenly Vasya understood why the women all begged him for prayers; understood, too, that his warm hand, the strong bones of his face, were a weapon, to use where the weapons of speech had failed.
He would get her obedience thus, with his rough hand, his beautiful eyes.”

My irreverent ass loves this paragraph

“Anna Ivanovna is not my mother, nor is her madness my business. Just as my soul is not yours. And it seems to me we did very well before you came; for if we prayed less, we also wept less."

Vasya is a better person than me. I would gladly let the most ignorant man get eaten by the ruslka. I guess forgiveness is a virtue.

Vasya, the village doesn’t deserve u, run free!

“With the three came a curling breath of wind, a wind out of the north. In the space between one breath and the next, the wind told him a tale: of life and death together, of a child born with the failing year.”

feels bad for Anna

“Pyotr had taken her to bed every night since their wedding, more for duty than for pleasure, true, but she had yet to look him in the face. He heard her weeping when she thought he slept.”