“I ended up here,” Artiom was saying to someone silently, “in the midst of the cold sea, with a woman whom I barely know. It’s possible that she has terrible sins on her soul, and it was fate that pulled her out to sea to drown her. I have nothing to do with that. I’m here by accident, on my own, without any guilt. I killed my father, but I was punished for that, I pulled logs, I was beaten, I was almost knifed. I saw death and I was condemned to die, I froze on Sekirka, slept under human bones, I heard the bell… Oh, if only someone would now ring that bell, somewhere in the darkness, and we would rush towards it so fast! Yes, Galia?”
He looked once again at his… who? His girlfriend? His wife? An unknown woman with a huge, boundless fate behind her?
What could possible save them now — hi
