How It All Goes Down
Not Prey, But Power
- Still feeling like she's being watched, Karou decides to go home. Alone. Bad idea.
- She bumps into someone unexpected—not one of her stalkers, but Svetla, Kazimir's new girlfriend, whom Karou wished into having really fuzzy eyebrows. They are not happy to see each other.
- Karou convinces Svetla to remain quiet as her actual stalker approaches.
- She sees his shadow first, and it has wings.
- Taking the initiative, Karou steps out of the alleyway and blasts Akiva with her invisible palm energy.
- Once he recovers, he tries to tell her that he won't hurt her, but she's not having any of it.
- She battles him a little more, until he flies into the air.
- Akiva keeps saying that he just wants to talk to her.
- Karou leaps into the air too.
- "So talk" (27.62), she says.