(AI translation from Russian)
— I’m not leaving, and you can both go to hell! I like it here.
Arawn thoughtfully scratched his chin with his whole hand.
— Very well. Stay, — he said at last.
— Ha! — Mathilda flared up. — Ha! And ha again! As though whether I stay here or not depends on your gracious permission! I am Wotan’s daughter!
The Dark One glanced questioningly at the Wise One, who merely shrugged.
— And I am the lord of Annwn. He, — Arawn pointed at Pwyll, — is one too, technically.
Mathilda, in her every gesture, seemed determined to prove the truth of the saying already uttered here: an uninvited guest was worse than a Saxon. She did not even raise an eyebrow at the Dark One’s words, continuing to skin the sacred Pig of Annwn she had apparently caught wandering away from the Herd.
Arawn approached the woman and noted to himself that she was not at all bad-looking. Beautiful, even. It would be a shame, of course, to dispose of her if she continued in this vein. Yet, to his great surprise, the Dark One felt not the slightest need to draw a boundary between Annwn and this fair-haired warrior, evidently a mortal daughter of some god—or whatever this unknown Wotan might be—whom she was so unwilling to return to after death.
— Stop skinning the Pig. You’ll kill her outright.
— You’re a strange one! — Mathilda exclaimed in amazement. — I already killed her. Can’t you see? Hmm. Are all your pigs this fat?
— May I? — Arawn held out his hand, intending to take the woman’s long knife.
After hesitating for a moment, she finally handed him the scramasax, immediately taking a demonstrative step backward until she stood beside her longsax, which lay nearby. Arawn pretended not to notice.
— Look, — he said, slicing several pieces of pork from the carcass and placing them before the woman. — As you can see, the Pig has grown whole again, as though I had taken nothing from her.