The rest was done on automatic. Ask for a description of the perpetrator. Bring in a perpetrator matching the description. The girl's terror and her crying confirmed that this gentleman had raped her.
The headman and his daughter were invited to stay the night, and in the morning to deal with the villain.
- Stephanie with sleeping pills in her food. Krapivin to guard. If he tries to escape, let him be crippled!
Konstantin only had to bow and fulfill the order, although his status was equal to that of the one who ordered him. Except that he assigned guards to Krapivin from those who supported him as a triumvir, and having outlined the situation to them, ordered to kill the guard in case of an escape attempt, not to maim him.
- Cut him off.
- It will grow back. You know that.
It was true-- vampire regeneration didn't end with quick healing. Lost limbs and body parts were also regenerated. Remembering how a girl wounded in the very first battle had flaunted a new spine a couple days later, Maria had cut off her own finger to begin with, and when it grew back, she had cut off the arm of one of her unwilling helpers. The hand also grew back, though more stories about the girl began to circulate.
The council, gathered at Alexander's insistence, had been going on for more than an hour. At first everyone could not believe in the truthfulness of the story. They had to go to the guest house and drink a couple drops of the sleeping child's blood each. After that, some of the council members had to be restrained from immediately lynching the culprit. It was only when the passions subsided that the discussion began.
- And when it grows back, cut it off again! - Olga banged on the table.
- In general, it is customary for the locals to take a dishonored woman as a wife.....
Leonid was not allowed to finish, throwing sarcastic comments.
- And do what?
- Cut it off.
- So Olga! Calm down already. Your proposal is clear. Any other ideas besides cutting off Krapivin's dick and continuing to do it in the future when it grows back?
Alexander looked around at everyone present. Eugene caught his gaze and nodded and stood up.
- You are all missing one point. Except for rape, which should be tried under our laws, not the local ones....
- And what, build a prison and keep him there until he dies? - Oleg interrupted the speaker.
Strictly looking at the interrupted his wife, Eugene continued.
- So, in addition to rape was also an attempted murder. - Eugene saw the dumbfounded faces of his companions. - It was rape and attempted murder, in police terms.
The vampires at the table began to nod.
- That's right. He drew a lot of blood out of the girl, and she lay exhausted for two days. She could have died. But what does it change? - Oleg looked expectantly at the triumvir.
- From the point of view of the laws of our world, only a term of imprisonment. From the local point of view it is a life sentence or a scaffold.
- Do you propose to execute the freak?
- I suggest we tie him naked to a pole at the top of this tower before dawn and leave him there all day. If the day is clear, he dies. If he tries to escape, we will kill him. If he lives through the night, we forget his crime.
- Just like that? - Olga's indignation was unrivaled.
- Well, you can cut him off once.
- I'll cut you off!
- Stop it. Please don't bring your sexual games in public. Any other suggestions?
Leonid is up.
- Imprisonment, and in our case the dirtiest and nastiest assignments and possibly deadly experiments in Maria. And I also want to remind you that the girl's father has not yet agreed to release the guilty party and can still demand a wedding. We won't be understood by the locals if we go against it, even if we kill the rapist.
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