Instead of a magic house, the main character ends up in a whole magical village, far away. But for some reason he’s not particularly surprised by everything - not by Nightingale Ordynovich, not by the carriage, not by the fact that the cat crushed Ivan with a song, not by the talking wolf. But she is not surprised for one reason - she is a witch herself, and no one but her will solve local problems. No other lady would have been able to even take a step into the portal-corridor. Our Vasilisushka’s place was right there, we were waiting for her, young Yaga. But in the end everything is in its place. The cover image was made using the Midjourney neural network