Chapter 18 - The Houses

The figure in red flew up to a large building built into the trunk of a majestic tree. Tens of windows, loopholes and spires at different angles, at random. The lady went through the widest opening, similar to the "mouth" of this crimson "porcupine".

Inside there are people in red hoods, near them there are entities who are red, whitish or black. Who is tall, slender or huge. Who is toothy, thorny or sharp-legged.

Entities of all stripes, one is scarier than the other.

In the center of the building, people in red crowded around special counters. The lady snorted and took her seat. Eighteen minutes later, it was her turn. The gray-haired old woman took the golden eye from the lady and gave it to her Essence.

The eye lit up, the light fluttered out of it and flowed into the old woman's eyes.

Various events flashed before her eyes: the victory over the Combination, helping the peasants in yellow with repairing the mill, removing the blockage and ... Twenty-Seven spits.

The old woman's face changed. She looked at the lady... then laughed out loud, almost spitting out her old-rotten guts.

"Stormeh neht, stormeh neht. Li!"

Coins flew out from under the counter and were swallowed by one of the lady's snakes. The reptile licked its lips with pleasure. The lady in red took the eye, wanted to bow and leave, but the old woman stopped her.

"Li!" a couple more coins flew into the snake's belly.

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The lady went into the hollow of the tree, where colorful buildings and tents were crowded together. She entered the house, in the window of which live cups were singing round dances.

"Sha-sha-sha-sha! Li-li-li-li shashahatu! Shashahatu! "

A three-armed cheerful entity greeted the lady from the threshold. "Shtorm, neht! Bih weheh to? "

"Shashaha. Bihgg". The lady took out a mug with a portrait of Han from the snake's stomach. "Yaroi limih Kipa. Hohhta teh bihahtah ereh re yaro to?"

The cheerful entity carefully took the mug, studied the drawing on it and laughed slightly.

"Trigo shormatu".

"Li".

"Li".

The lady and the cheerful entity shook hands.

"Ulaymu raph, neht". The Entity was able to move to another room. It was replaced by a Timid Entity.

A man wearing white entered the house. A some girl in yellow clothes was clinging to his chest.

[Koht***hohy ya***ko.] the lady in red folded her arms and turned away.

The young thin man went to oblong cups, that sooner similar on jugs. He got one from them and showed his beautiful companioness.

The thin man called the Timid Entity to himself.

He talked to the Timid Entity, pointed to his companion a couple of times and chuckled, waving the jug. The entity made an inviting gesture. A thin man in white recovered in a booth that stood alone in the corner of the store.

For a couple of minutes, the lady in red and the girl in yellow stood alone in the room. Strange sounds were heard from the booth.

"Akh ... akh, yaro nerekh... eh?! Ah. Yaro... "

"Tsehaghu".

The lady frowned, then looked at the girl.

The girl turned away, shrinking into herself. The lady snorted.

After a while, the man came out with the entity. The timid entity, smiling shyly, went after that cheerful entity.

The man walked up to the girl in yellow and stroked her shoulder, then his hand slid lower. The girl blushed, her tiny thin legs trembled.

The lady was standing near the opposite wall of the room. Wrinkles appeared on the beautiful woman's forehead.

"Ahem... ahem... Laimih akh, ku... "

"Bih to?!" the man snapped.

The lady clenched her fists, she wanted to pounce on the man and tear his insides, but she looked at the clean white clothes.

"Uzeh", the lady turned away from the thin man and his ... girlfriend. The woman tried to concentrate her attention on the jugs and cups that were displayed on numerous shelves.

"Aahhh! U-u-uzeh! " the girl pushed the man away from her.

A three-legged entity got out of the girl's yellow dress, she picked up the girl and tried to carry her out of the building. But this was not to be. Twenty-seven thin limbs pinned the girl and the essence to the ground.

"Shedeh!" the Thin man chuckled.

The lady in red had a gray look. Looking at the sea of paws, the woman opened her mouth slightly. Inside her book, one bug lit up.

[Kepehu. Karatskh Shashatukh. Leroo Nahat. Shtormeheten gith akinth shedeh. Yaro tsekhagh odo].

Twenty-seven limbs began to tear the yellow clothes.

"Uzeh! Ulaymu, akh Tsetseha! Ulaymu! Yaro ... yaro ... ulaymu uheh, " the girl began to cry. Her trembling eyes looked towards the lady in red. " Ulaymu, akhe geh ... Laishadenu kure!"

The lady gritted her teeth. The red essence materialized from the air and rushed at the thin man. The woman rushed with the snake spear at the ready.

The thin man chuckled. Something cold touched the lady's back, her limbs stopped obeying. She fell helplessly into the arms of thin, cold hands that filled the entire room. Their former number of twenty-seven has tripled to eighty-one.

[Uzeh! Koht*** yare! Uzeh! Uzeh!]

The lady tried to escape, but it was useless. Soon the hands caught the Red Essence. She tried to use the snakes, but something prevented their use.

The thin man's laughter hurt the lady's ears. Slim touched the smooth cheek of the woman and smiled. She spat. The man did not change in any way in his face, only the claws on the fingers of the eighty-one-armed entity dug into the flesh of the Red One and began to tear through the outer cover, releasing purple blood.

The lady's pupils were trembling. They took off her helmet, unbuckled the straps of her cuirass. The thin man put her belly on the counter, near which she literally talked for ten minutes with a cheerful entity.

A shiver ran down the lady's spine. "Shedeh! Shedeh! Shedeh! *** enh! C***..."

The lady constantly hurled curses at the man, almost forgetting to breathe.

The thin man's lower eyelid twitched, he smiled, slightly turned the lady around, so that she saw the Red Essence.

The man pointed at her. The claws dug deeper and began to pull in two opposite directions. The creature wheezed. The lady's ears caught the sound of tendons breaking.

"Uzeh... ku tsehaghahu pe... tsehaghahu pe. Gohatu kure weh taren, " the woman's voice trembled, she looked at the thin man's smile and tears rolled down her cheeks.

"Ulaymu... "

"Uzeh."

The lady screamed violently. "Karou! Uzeh! Kara! Ku shedeh!"

But the screams did not help, the outside world was deaf. The lady could only watch as the claws slowly tore the Red Essence into pieces.

The

thin man let the words pass by, stroking the beautiful lady on the back.

The red essence stopped making sounds, organs spilled out of the torn stomach.

The lady stared at the motionless body, not blinking, only occasionally making painful breaths and exhalations. She no longer paid attention to the touch on her body, no matter how outrageous they were. The lady became a timid doll in the hands of a crazy puppeteer.

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A young damsel in a red uniform was walking, sleepily stretching after hard work. The vertebrae cracked rusty in her back, and she gasped with pleasure.

"Oh, limi kui ahanstormeh, Nun."

The gecko dozing on the damsel's shoulder nodded sleepily.

The damsel continued to walk, when suddenly the beetle in the eyed book vibrated.

[Kepehu. Karatskh Shashatukh. Leroo Nahat. Shtormeheten gith akinth shedeh. Yaro tsekhagh odo]. A hurried female voice sounded in the girl's head.

"Gohli!"

The beetle vibrated again. A picture of twenty-seven hands appeared inside the damsel's eyes, a girl in a torn yellow dress crying on the floor, a thin man, a house with cups and jugs.

Bright caterpillars and leaves of a plant similar to mangrove trees crawled out from under the gecko's skin. They all merged into a single mass, and the gecko grew to the size of a horse. The damsel jumped on the bowl-shaped neck, and went to the source of the message.

There were already several people in red and black on the spot. The entrance to the building was blocked by numerous hands. People sent various animals to them. One resembled a corkscrew, the other a dog with ten shark jaws on its face. But things were going slowly.

The girl frowned as she looked at her thin hands, which were entwined in one dense mess.

Women's screams were heard from the building.

The people in red remained calm. People dressed in black were talking.

The damsel rubbed her temples, opened a pocket in the gecko's belly and took out a caterpillar with a lizard's head.

"Akhatu! Lan li-meh!"

The caterpillar crawled, several of the people in red took out their lizards, turtles, plants, and insects from their mouths essentially and provided the caterpillar. Lizards, turtles merged with the caterpillar, and it grew to the size of a cow. The jointed legs broke out of the body. The caterpillar ate the insects with the throat of a lizard. And the plants wrapped themselves around, injecting tonic juice.

The half-reptile, half-insect roared and spat out an acid-colored substance. The thin hands fell apart.

The men in red prepared for long-range attacks, some hid behind shields.

"Peranohshagu!" shouted the strongest old man of the people in red.

The thin man removed the eighty-one-armed entity and went out, smiling mockingly and holding up the stock.

People in two of the people in red tied up and put translucent rings with capillaries on the man's hands. The girl followed inside with the people in black robes. The rest of the people in red did not take their eyes off the man.

As soon as the girl entered the house, she saw a girl who was lying on the floor. The girl took a blanket out of a tiny lizard and covered the poor thing. Besides the girl, there was a yellow essence and... a red essence lying on the floor.

It was almost torn in two, the bones sticking out. The half-open trio of eyes stared stupidly at the ceiling.

"Karu..." The woman was crying over the entity's body. People dressed in black surrounded the Red Entity and released fireflies emitting pollen.

The girl threw a thin blanket of warm leaves over the lady's bare shoulders and led her outside.