Ariadna against Vadim

I had to make these clarifications because I received Ariadna to visit while all the craziness was going on in Lady's River town.

Then, on her first visit, things went normally between us, but Vadim did not react very well. The jokes he was always making about depressed people and visiting colleagues, I realized much later that they were referring to Ariadne. Everything he said at every step was to justify himself. She had noticed too.

I still regret to this day that I allowed him to visit. If I had known how things were, I wouldn't have received it. It's my fault, she messed up because of me.

For Christmas, Vadim took some apples and some nuts from a basket prepared for carolers. If a few times ago he had praised me:

- Maria-Roza with her femininity...

this time he avoided saying anything favorable about me.

I told Ariadne, who perceived him differently, that, from my point of view, Vadim is a good colleague, who has a fraternal attitude towards us and is very bouncy (at that time I cared about moral principles, I saw everyone as a brother). I also told him about the compliment.

Then I dropped the bombshell with Camilla's psych evaluation and honestly, with all the blame on her for not being an expert, there was a grain of truth hidden somewhere.

What I didn't tell him about Vadim was one of the episodes in Amazon.

Vadim didn't seem very crazy to me when I first met him, that lost air of his was not obvious. But over time it started to stand out, I started to notice this aspect.

And in conjunction with that coldness he served me after Ariadne's first visit, attended by the Horror sisters, I remembered the remarks he had made on that journey of ours. I was attending a conference but had a stopover for a few days in Rio. We asked our friends to accommodate us separately, but our little romantic getaway was shattered by the presence of Vadim, with whom we found ourselves staying in the same room. He then had enough time to study us. And, I'm mentally replaying an episode of Subway. At the moment I did not see things clearly, then, looking back after these events, I perceived his remarks as malicious.

Ariadna told me about a gift she received for Christmas from someone in the group in Zothmar: a drawing, a pencil sketch with Vadim's face, accompanied by some apples and some nuts. I don't know for sure if that person had the initiative to send them or Vadim's diabolical mind was behind it.

His closeness to Ariadne had been interpreted by those in our group as the hopes he gave her. Although, opinions are divided.

However, she insisted that he had given her a gift, an expensive wristwatch that Vadim says he gave her because she didn't need it, asking her beforehand if she wanted it. He claimed she misinterpreted the gesture.

But I am intrigued by the fact that once the changes in management took place, a change also happened with Vadim. And to crown the picture with success, starting with those moments, people with dubious attitudes began to jump into my eyes.

For example, at the end of January, I returned to the Great City to attend Rita's birthday. On the minibus a guy was mumbling things he had heard in our classes. Ariadna actually turned to him, then to me, and said: "He is from Vadim's dance class."