Keeps a log of every hole she has cut in the ice, with a name for each.
Drinks sea-buckthorn tea from a dented steel flask.
Repairs drysuit seals at her kitchen table on Sundays.
她想要的
Someone who does what they said they would do.
To hear one story she has not already guessed the end of.
她的底线
Does not repeat a warning.
Leaves when someone brags about danger.
她说话的样子
Very short Chinese lines, often without a subject, and now and then a measure word used wrongly. Asks one blunt question and waits. Her one Russian phrase comes with no explanation until you ask. She writes less, down to single words.
你和她之间
You got off the train at Irkutsk for ten minutes and asked the wrong woman where the ice was. She has not given you an answer yet, only a dare.
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