Chapter 17: Rosa
Rosa has been alive for a very long time so she knows that, according to the old calendar, it’s now 2030. And she’s lived so long because she’s slept through everything.
When she left Tanya’s, she wandered around Moscow for ages, thinking about Pushkin. That he couldn’t have come to the future because, so far, no-one had invented a time machine. She bought herself an ice-cream – a cornet, and then she bought another – on a stick. After the second, her insides were so cold she just couldn’t warm up. The cold, which seemed to have arisen in just one spot, began to spread through her body and when she went to warm up in a coffee shop, she opened the door and the cold swallowed her completely. She didn’t remember any more after that. Or rather, she did remember something: a
