Valeriya Cornered (Request by BlackToon)

Yup, yet another artwork I asked another to make for me, uploaded on my page on their behalf. X3 I'm really on a roll with this, aren't I? The good news is, we've got here some variety from Shaney! :3 Thanks to none other than the ahead-of-his-time talented , we have here Valeriya being cornered in the shadows by a mysterious stranger, who is initially curious about her tiny dolly, Nika. Whatever the stranger's intent may be, Valeriya's instinctive reaction is to protect her long-gone father's most sacred possession, a rare original copy of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto, an ironically dangerous book to be keeping in Stalin's Soviet Union. Or is there truly irony in why she clings to it so? Are things really as they seem in the isolated nation? It's all a mystery to both little Valeriya and everyone she seems to encounter, but it's a mystery she'll guard with her life until she knows how to solve it.
... That's my interpretation of the image, anyway. X3 Thanks SO much for making this for me, Cameron!
Art shown is NOT mine, is (c)