Family.
The word means different things to different people.
For Aleandra Dimitrov it means solitude.
❝"𝘒𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘷-77 𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘦," 𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥.
𝘈𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘢 𝘨𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘮, "𝘋𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘦."
𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘵. 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦, 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨.❞
Russia October 1963
The end has come for David, Alexei, and Igor but Aleandra pulls through. She will forever be different now, no family will accept her. Not even the lonesome uranium she studies.