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        <title>Artem Krivosheya</title>
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        <description>My name is Artem, I'm an NFT artist and Digital Fashion Designer from recent times. Member of GDN. </description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Kendrick Lamar Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2022 21:09:01 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Okay, I&apos;m a very big music lover, and the last Kendrick album broke me up, this is my blog, so I can write what I want, today, I want to write about Kendrick. The album begins with the words "I had to go through something in 1855 days." That number is the exact number of days that have passed since the previous album, Damn. Release date: Friday the 13th, isn&apos;t that cool? In the album itself Kendrick expressed all his personal feelings, problems, and also put it into the beat so juic...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Okay, I&apos;m a very big music lover, and the last Kendrick album broke me up, this is my blog, so I can write what I want, today, I want to write about Kendrick.</p><p>The album begins with the words &quot;I had to go through something in 1855 days.&quot; That number is the exact number of days that have passed since the previous album, Damn. Release date: Friday the 13th, isn&apos;t that cool?</p><p>In the album itself Kendrick expressed all his personal feelings, problems, and also put it into the beat so juicy, I listen to this album now every run I make on the record, and God, how cool it is.</p><p>On the last song, &quot;Mirror,&quot; Kendrick reads that he can&apos;t save the world because he&apos;s trying to fix his own. He asks not to look to him for a savior and ends the album with &quot;I&apos;m sorry, I choose me.&quot;</p><p>How the ideology of this album subtly intersects with Brodsky&apos;s philosophy is magnificent. I recommend everyone to listen to this album.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Definition of a person]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2022 21:55:24 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A person must define himself in certain categories, for example, I am a coward or not a coward, am I a greedy person or generous, am I honest with others or not? And only then do we need to define ourselves in matters of scale, because when there is objective evil, it relieves us of introspection. A person must be demanding, and must not hide behind a concept or philosophy; a person is not the sum of what he believes, but the sum of his deeds.]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A person must define himself in certain categories, for example, I am a coward or not a coward, am I a greedy person or generous, am I honest with others or not? And only then do we need to define ourselves in matters of scale, because when there is objective evil, it relieves us of introspection. A person must be demanding, and must not hide behind a concept or philosophy; a person is not the sum of what he believes, but the sum of his deeds.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Segments of life]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2022 21:01:14 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Our life is linear and very interestingly divided into several stages, a white streak, a black streak and a moment of waiting. And these periods are cyclical, no matter what status a person has, you can have an incredible rise and then a lightning-fast fall, and then a little stabilization. Perhaps this is what gives the very juice, the meaning of life. Perhaps without these streaks, our lives were boring, for it is these streaks that provide the script for our lives. Fate, the best screenwri...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Our life is linear and very interestingly divided into several stages, a white streak, a black streak and a moment of waiting. And these periods are cyclical, no matter what status a person has, you can have an incredible rise and then a lightning-fast fall, and then a little stabilization. Perhaps this is what gives the very juice, the meaning of life. Perhaps without these streaks, our lives were boring, for it is these streaks that provide the script for our lives. Fate, the best screenwriter. Only I wonder what genre you&apos;re an actor in.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[We give people traits]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2022 21:57:51 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[How strong the proxemics are within us, the closer we get to a person, the more we visualize their non-existent traits, we give them away, and then we get angry that they don&apos;t match them. But who is really wrong? After all, a person is a set of temperament and character, half of our being is determined from birth, and only then, depending on the situation, do we form a complete personality. And more often than not, we meet with an already formed person. We look at his actions, and give ...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How strong the proxemics are within us, the closer we get to a person, the more we visualize their non-existent traits, we give them away, and then we get angry that they don&apos;t match them. But who is really wrong? After all, a person is a set of temperament and character, half of our being is determined from birth, and only then, depending on the situation, do we form a complete personality. And more often than not, we meet with an already formed person. We look at his actions, and give a value judgment, we imagine what kind of person he is, but most often, this judgment collapses like a fragile vase and we are angry, disappointed, it feels like we were stabbed in the back. But, in fact, we stabbed ourselves in the back, because it was only really our representation, and the person is what he was, and has remained so from the beginning. Unfortunately, the philosophy of kintsugi will not help here, there will be no golden glue, but indeed, it is good if we learn this lesson of psychology from the first time.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Love or Addiction]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2022 21:53:26 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Do people really love, or is it just an addiction, many people in the beginning of marriage loved their wives, and then or because of addiction forgot about them, it begs the question, did they really love? Or was it just a change of craving, it happens with many things, maybe people haven&apos;t learned how to love, because Bob Marley said, you say you love the rain, but you hide behind an umbrella. And so it is with many things. This is a thought that came to me from the Vinland anime. So t...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do people really love, or is it just an addiction, many people in the beginning of marriage loved their wives, and then or because of addiction forgot about them, it begs the question, did they really love? Or was it just a change of craving, it happens with many things, maybe people haven&apos;t learned how to love, because Bob Marley said, you say you love the rain, but you hide behind an umbrella. And so it is with many things. This is a thought that came to me from the Vinland anime. So think about what you have in your life, love, or just an addiction.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[My Freelancing Month]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2022 21:22:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[My month of freelancing is coming to a close. What conclusions I drew. I should mention that I&apos;m only telling you how I feel. When I worked in a regular job, I often put off things that I wanted to do for a long time, doing sports, reading books, for each activity I found an excuse, then my body would be sick, and tomorrow I would go out for 24 hours, I would not have time to rest and so on, although in fact, these things take no more than an hour, but are useful to your mind or body in ...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My month of freelancing is coming to a close. What conclusions I drew. I should mention that I&apos;m only telling you how I feel. When I worked in a regular job, I often put off things that I wanted to do for a long time, doing sports, reading books, for each activity I found an excuse, then my body would be sick, and tomorrow I would go out for 24 hours, I would not have time to rest and so on, although in fact, these things take no more than an hour, but are useful to your mind or body in the future, that is, as a person I would feel better, but alas.</p><p>In freelancing I have clearly divided my schedule of the day, and god, everything I want, I have time for, that is, my activity, as well as my development as a person has grown by one hundred percent.</p><p>Plus, my mood has grown many times over, I&apos;m not as nervous or anxious, I don&apos;t end my day thinking, damn, I have to wake up for work tomorrow, I mean, I didn&apos;t want the day to start at all, I mean ding the day was a drag on me. Not to say that this is the solution to all problems, but as a person I have become a better person (I repeat), and my work is related to a field that interests me, accordingly, I am evolving in it.</p><p>Here is such a brief excursus, or rather a note to myself.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Spring and summer tradition]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2022 22:04:59 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[I promised to tell you about the tradition that has formed, there is nothing outstanding in it, but all my comrades are very much looking forward to this moment, when the nights are warm. And the essence of the tradition is this - we take the TV out to the vegetable garden, download anime to a flash drive and watch anime under the open stars, it sounds like something - something ordinary, but believe me, it feels like you&apos;re watching in 3D, a minute before you were insanely beautiful ani...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I promised to tell you about the tradition that has formed, there is nothing outstanding in it, but all my comrades are very much looking forward to this moment, when the nights are warm. And the essence of the tradition is this - we take the TV out to the vegetable garden, download anime to a flash drive and watch anime under the open stars, it sounds like something - something ordinary, but believe me, it feels like you&apos;re watching in 3D, a minute before you were insanely beautiful anime, you tilt your head, take a deep breath and watch the stars. Anyway, it&apos;s hard to describe, but, you have to try. This is a picture from the first outdoor anime night!</p><figure float="none" data-type="figure" class="img-center" style="max-width: null;"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/e0c60fcfcfc61ba9b9868b55e3ef707cc34723f90bd69a013f8b60f8e66e0c79.jpg" alt="" blurdataurl="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACwAAAAAAQABAAACAkQBADs=" nextheight="600" nextwidth="800" class="image-node embed"><figcaption HTMLAttributes="[object Object]" class="hide-figcaption"></figcaption></figure>]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Next big step]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2022 20:39:55 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[So, I continue to keep my diary. Today I took a picture, scanned my fingerprints for the internation passport, and, I&apos;m at the finish line, I have a month to wait before I get it (the final month). So, the road of adventure is calling soon. So, it&apos;s an unremarkable day, I was on the road most of the day, and tomorrow, there will be something interesting, it&apos;s getting warmer outside, it&apos;s time to show you a local tradition.]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, I continue to keep my diary. Today I took a picture, scanned my fingerprints for the internation passport, and, I&apos;m at the finish line, I have a month to wait before I get it (the final month). So, the road of adventure is calling soon. So, it&apos;s an unremarkable day, I was on the road most of the day, and tomorrow, there will be something interesting, it&apos;s getting warmer outside, it&apos;s time to show you a local tradition.</p>]]></content:encoded>
            <author>artem-krivosheya@newsletter.paragraph.com (Artem Krivosheya)</author>
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            <title><![CDATA[The day I've been waiting a long time for]]></title>
            <link>https://paragraph.com/@artem-krivosheya/the-day-i-ve-been-waiting-a-long-time-for</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2022 20:44:49 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A month later, my turn has come up, tomorrow I&apos;m going to apply for a international passport, a clean, fresh one. I wonder what country will be first on my international passport. At the moment, my dream country is France, and then we&apos;ll see how it goes. P.S. It is so interesting to keep my diary, I hope that in time I will read it with a smile on my face and nostalgia. P.P.S. I&apos;ve been waiting my turn for a month, I wonder how long I&apos;ll wait to get it.]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A month later, my turn has come up, tomorrow I&apos;m going to apply for a international passport, a clean, fresh one. I wonder what country will be first on my international passport. At the moment, my dream country is France, and then we&apos;ll see how it goes.</p><p>P.S. It is so interesting to keep my diary, I hope that in time I will read it with a smile on my face and nostalgia.</p><p>P.P.S. I&apos;ve been waiting my turn for a month, I wonder how long I&apos;ll wait to get it.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[How my life has changed in a month of freelancing]]></title>
            <link>https://paragraph.com/@artem-krivosheya/how-my-life-has-changed-in-a-month-of-freelancing</link>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2022 22:27:02 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Today will not be my fantasie stories, let&apos;s talk, about my life. After all, it&apos;s been almost a month, maybe I&apos;ll make a rubric out of it, but I&apos;ll share a small part of how I feel at the moment. So, I spent almost all my life on studying in college, university, but at a certain point I was disappointed in my chosen profession, especially since my early childhood I wanted to be creative, but almost all my attempts were received with hostility, and as an argument I was told...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today will not be my fantasie stories, let&apos;s talk, about my life. After all, it&apos;s been almost a month, maybe I&apos;ll make a rubric out of it, but I&apos;ll share a small part of how I feel at the moment.</p><p>So, I spent almost all my life on studying in college, university, but at a certain point I was disappointed in my chosen profession, especially since my early childhood I wanted to be creative, but almost all my attempts were received with hostility, and as an argument I was told - without a paper, you are a cricket. That is, from childhood I was told that without education, no one needs me, and will not be able to support themselves (not everyone understands that your level of knowledge papers are not responsible for your level of unfortunately). Neither in the fashion world, nor in Digital, NFT, I did not have any acquaintances, I started from scratch, making acquaintances, I think here played a large part of luck, because almost immediately came across kind and sympathetic people who help in my journey so far. At first I met Alexander Kurmanin, who is still my teacher in Digital Fashion, one of the kindest people I have ever met, it was him who sent me to explore the new world in Digitalax, where I met a lot of good people who helped me even in the dumbest questions, but nevertheless the knowledge in these questions gave me the determination to give up university, then there was a long period, of course with moral degradation, I honestly tried, worked as much as I could (although I could more, I tell it like it is), during my formation, I began to communicate with the Digitalax team, in particular with Emma, in fact, who took me to work, and helped me finally find an answer to the question with my studies (Yes, I talk a lot about studies, but you have not seen the number of my degrees, ahahaha, this is a very important topic for me, because of this topic I was morally at rock bottom). So I passed from the hands of mentorship Alexander, in the hands of mentorship Emma (Two of the kindest people I met, in fact, I&apos;m a big lucky guy). At some point, I refused to work in my profession, but I finally ran out of money, so I worked in construction for a while, but about that later, there is also something to share. So now I&apos;m a free man, I earn my living as a creative artist, my creative journey began, after a long time I began to live as I want, thanks to the people who helped me in this. Why am I saying all this, guys, if I did it, then you will also be able to live the life you want, you just have to try and not give up, no matter how corny it sounds, but it is, you just have to understand it in your head. Live your life the way your heart tells you.</p><p>In this text, I would like to say a great deal to the people who helped in my formation ♡</p>]]></content:encoded>
            <author>artem-krivosheya@newsletter.paragraph.com (Artem Krivosheya)</author>
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            <title><![CDATA[A random story #5]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2022 22:09:32 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[I love stories about love and about music, and sometimes there really isn&apos;t much to say. I&apos;m a wandering warrior, so listen to my story. I&apos;ve been in love with a girl I&apos;ve known since I was a kid for a long time, but I&apos;ve always, how should I say it, lacked, ah, yes, that&apos;s right, determination! I&apos;m a warrior, I&apos;m good with a sword and all that, but love is much more serious than waving a sword. But it&apos;s not about me right now. My lover is a very t...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I love stories about love and about music, and sometimes there really isn&apos;t much to say. I&apos;m a wandering warrior, so listen to my story. I&apos;ve been in love with a girl I&apos;ve known since I was a kid for a long time, but I&apos;ve always, how should I say it, lacked, ah, yes, that&apos;s right, determination! I&apos;m a warrior, I&apos;m good with a sword and all that, but love is much more serious than waving a sword. But it&apos;s not about me right now. My lover is a very talented musician who plays the flute and tattam. Her name is Christie! What do you want? Christie&apos;s in the groove. More than once I&apos;ve talked to her about something serious, but she&apos;s always interrupted me with a smile. I still don&apos;t know what she felt for me, but that&apos;s not the point. I love her more than anything in the world, so I just didn&apos;t have time to go up to her to tell her I loved her. However, it&apos;s bad enough that I know what she looks like. I literally can&apos;t take my eyes off her. And she looks at me, and she&apos;s not the least bit mad at me. I guess it amuses her so much that I&apos;m trying to woo her like a guy. Well, then I see it&apos;s not working out anyway. Fighting for the glory of her beauty, I&apos;m fighting for my soul at the same time. Her heart may never fully understand me, but to the depths where there is not even a thought of love, I will still fight for its possession. This I say to you, a noble knight. I am fully prepared to serve my beloved, but I am not sure that I am worthy of her love. Isn&apos;t this the love of which the poets write? It illuminates all who meet and pass by! Anyway, I was talking. Once we were sent on a mission, to save the world and everything, but during this mission, she was bewitched by a sorcerer, putting a curse on her, and for me, even beneficial, in short, she fell in love with me, but it was not sincere, only at the call of magic. I wasn&apos;t really in a hurry to break that spell on her, but still, it was love of the brain, not the soul, because it&apos;s important when a person loves you with their soul. So, here&apos;s a question for you, what would you do in this situation?</p>]]></content:encoded>
            <author>artem-krivosheya@newsletter.paragraph.com (Artem Krivosheya)</author>
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            <title><![CDATA[A random story #4]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2022 21:47:20 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[We&apos;re human, said Mom with a smirk, we all make mistakes, and not every path we choose is the right one, it&apos;s not a problem when there was a mistake in life, the trouble is when all life..... error. After these words a tear ran down my cheeks. I wanted to say something, but I couldn&apos;t. I just nodded my head yes. Then we stood by the window for a long time, and my mother talked about something, while I looked outside and thought. After a while my mother turned around and said: -...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We&apos;re human, said Mom with a smirk, we all make mistakes, and not every path we choose is the right one, it&apos;s not a problem when there was a mistake in life, the trouble is when all life..... error. After these words a tear ran down my cheeks. I wanted to say something, but I couldn&apos;t. I just nodded my head yes. Then we stood by the window for a long time, and my mother talked about something, while I looked outside and thought. After a while my mother turned around and said: - Today is a wonderful day, let&apos;s have a surprise for you, son. You like surprises, don&apos;t you? - You bet I do, I replied. - Then go to your room and get ready. Now we&apos;ll surprise you. I obediently went to my room, sat in an armchair and waited. After a while the bell rang in the room. There was a guitar with a festive bow by the door, and indeed, I had wanted a guitar for so long. As soon as my mother opened the door, I picked it up, as if I had done it for the first time, and walked out into the hallway. Still outside the door, I turned and sang the first line of the song I had written to myself: &quot;The road is bright, the forest ends, and people come... Mom, there are so many trees and so many trails in the forest, how do people choose where to go? I feel like I&apos;m standing in a dark forest, Mom only laughed, and then said: Choose the path your heart tells you to take, and that&apos;s it? Stunned, I asked? Mom chuckled and replied, yes, that&apos;s it. The catch is that usually people don&apos;t listen to their heart and choose the paths that are forced upon them, and they are usually not the right ones, even wrong ones, no one can tell you where to go, not me, not my father, no one. Touching my heart with the palm of her hand, she said: here, there is your compass, learn to listen to it, even in the worst storm, whatever happens, it will lead you to the right road. Life is like a piano, first the white keys, then black, and they are all needed for a harmonious composition, do not be afraid of them, take for granted, and overcome, but it will come out the most beautiful symphony! It&apos;s not about how strong your body is or how developed your mind is, without strength of mind we are only cucumbers with arms and legs. Oh, yes, and without a dream, we&apos;re also cucumbers, my mother laughed, but your compass will lead you to your dream, believe me, even before you look back! I do not like to choose the route myself, and I&apos;m telling you this for the tenth time, you know it already. You do not love, and do not know how, you do not need the approval of someone - or, when the voice inside you begins to say firmly what he wants, on behalf of the heart, then you will choose yourself, that&apos;s when you&apos;ll be ready to make your own choice. Okay, let&apos;s go to dinner, we&apos;ve talked too much, by the way, what will you have for dinner?</p>]]></content:encoded>
            <author>artem-krivosheya@newsletter.paragraph.com (Artem Krivosheya)</author>
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            <title><![CDATA[A random story #3]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2022 21:08:30 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[My daytime and nighttime life is very different, I spent all night in a nightclub and then drove about 150 kilometers an hour on the night road going to my mansion on the riverbank. Although, it was two in the morning, it felt like everything stopped and everything around me froze, like time had stopped. It was very calm and good, I tried smoking a few times on the way, and each time something got in my way. At the end I did quit. I don&apos;t suffer from anything, maybe because I don&apos;t ...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My daytime and nighttime life is very different, I spent all night in a nightclub and then drove about 150 kilometers an hour on the night road going to my mansion on the riverbank. Although, it was two in the morning, it felt like everything stopped and everything around me froze, like time had stopped. It was very calm and good, I tried smoking a few times on the way, and each time something got in my way. At the end I did quit. I don&apos;t suffer from anything, maybe because I don&apos;t think about pain, I&apos;ve lived my whole life that way and I won&apos;t die that way, someday apparently my life will be over. Everything is absolutely wonderful, I don&apos;t want to change anything, everything is going very well in my life. Sometimes I even feel like I&apos;m going to the service. I feel like I exist in good day and bad night mode. After parking my sports car I went into the mansion and sat down at my desk, I needed to write a story, hmmm, just what to write about? After thinking about it, I decided to start with an evening at a big nightclub. Here&apos;s the plot. I&apos;m sitting at a table, there is no light in the hall and people are dancing, but not really people, I see different people in different poses, it seems to me that I&apos;m in a movie or a TV program and I watch it live. The music is playing, basically. I&apos;m drinking a glass of very strong bourbon, the room is, as always, very quiet, people are talking. And suddenly one girl comes up to me and sits on my lap. Then a few more. Another girl sits next to me. Then three more at the table. And so on. All the girls were beautifully dressed, beautiful, with long hair. And somehow, though I couldn&apos;t really explain, their outfits were different from each other. But it didn&apos;t matter. I drank my second glass of bourbon, and all of this became just a dream that was about to end. Maybe that&apos;s what you drink bourbon for, not to dream, I thought. Suddenly I realized that everything that was happening was not a dream, but a reality. And that it was really happening to me. That it was real. I saw myself from the outside and thought that I didn&apos;t look anything like me in the hall-I mean, I was exactly the same, of course, but I must have had a little too much to drink. The music ended, the lights went on, and all the girls went back to their tables. But they were no longer interested in me. I felt a vague fear, and looked at my palm-it was naked, though there had been a pair of wedding rings there before. But now it was gone. I looked at myself in the mirror, and there I saw a haggard creature that had long since forgotten about hygiene. Only the big meaningless eyes from under the visor of my cap were the same, and there was nothing else in the mirror. I drank another glass of bourbon and stood up. I walked shakily out of the club, took a deep breath, I turned around and looked at the sign, and memories flashed before my eyes, because I had once been married, happy, but my marriage was ruined by alcohol, damn it, I had once been in love! Screaming at the top of my lungs: &quot;I AIN&apos;T EVER COMING BACK HERE, MOTHERFUCKERS! &quot;I jumped into my sports car, while I started the engine, I heard a distant voice of the guards: &quot;Yeah, he says that every night&quot; and wild laughter accompanied me on my way.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[A random story #2]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2022 22:15:19 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Sitting on the evening veranda, on a beautiful summer evening, the wind gently sweeping across my face as I finished another glass of whiskey at my favorite bar, I gazed up at the stars in the sky above my table and marveled at how much they looked like shards of memories. It really is a beauty, I said to myself. There&apos;s something similar about looking out the window of a train, going back to your childhood. Why, I wonder, are we all so drawn to these shards of memories? What causes us a...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sitting on the evening veranda, on a beautiful summer evening, the wind gently sweeping across my face as I finished another glass of whiskey at my favorite bar, I gazed up at the stars in the sky above my table and marveled at how much they looked like shards of memories. It really is a beauty, I said to myself. There&apos;s something similar about looking out the window of a train, going back to your childhood. Why, I wonder, are we all so drawn to these shards of memories? What causes us and our guests to turn into tourists like me, searching with our eyes in the dusk at night for the lights of the railroads? And when will we find those lights? And will we ever find them? Isn&apos;t it like examining your body - is that how it ages, while you&apos;re still the same sixteen-year-old boy, full of enthusiasm and hope? Aren&apos;t we all random people, breaking free from our old bodies on this mesmerizing nighttime journey through time and space in which there are no dates or calendars? Can one who looks at it from the outside find anything definitive to say? No,&quot; I said to myself, &quot;nothing is certain in this journey, as in other worlds, and it would be best if I did not ponder it. On the other hand, there are too many shards of memories. Shouldn&apos;t I start with what my senses are telling me? I took a deep breath and opened my eyes. A wave of shivers ran through my body. I wondered what had made me so excited. It&apos;s all gone now. It would never happen again. And what could be so agitating? Oh, I see. I remembered the shape of her face, her beautiful eyes, I don&apos;t even remember the reason we broke up, ah, and the smell she left on my clothes, I could lie on the couch for hours breathing in my shirt and remembering her radiant smile, her laugh that drove me crazy... It was the most wonderful time I&apos;d ever had, except that I should have honestly admitted to myself that I would never forget those days, because the memory of them was the most vivid thing that had ever happened to me. Maybe I was too drunk. Indeed, I only remember her after a couple of glasses of whiskey, but the alcohol is still working. How long can it last? I closed my eyes. Now I could dream in peace. Her face, with a small mole near her lips. It was just unbearable. Her eyes, often slanting to the side. It gave her a mysterious and dangerous look. Her voice, quiet and gentle. Her soft and lingering voice. Her quiet and gentle laughter. Her softly clenched hands into fists. Her gentle and beautiful movements of her hips. Her graceful curves and touches. Her smooth and soft skin. Her smell and scent of her skin. Her hair. Her long and straight hair always falling over her face. Her eyes. Her heart and light girlish voice. Her hands stroking me so lightly and gently. Her fingers softly touching mine and tickling my eyebrows. Her fingers briskly plucking the strings of her guitar. Her beautiful and delicate lips. Her movements and fine teeth. Her light and quick tongue and lip movements. Should I call her? What if she&apos;s asleep? No, no. No, no. No, no. Please, not now. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No. No, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Yes, yes. I took my phone out of my inside jacket pocket, and put it on the table, then started looking for her number in my contact list, ah, there it was, I pressed the call button and a moment later she picked up the phone and said: “Why&apos;d You Only Call Me When You&apos;re High?”</p>]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Random Story #1]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2022 21:15:34 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Jazz music was playing in the background, the sun was setting, and he was coming for me soon. As I danced to the gorgeous soundtrack, I realized that he was making me quite bold first, then wild. And I&apos;m making him, too. After wrapping a towel around me after my shower, I decided it would be great to pick up my lipstick and powder and everything else that my new look was supposed to be, so I went into the bedroom. I stood in front of the mirror and began tracing my lips with lipstick, sm...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jazz music was playing in the background, the sun was setting, and he was coming for me soon. As I danced to the gorgeous soundtrack, I realized that he was making me quite bold first, then wild. And I&apos;m making him, too. After wrapping a towel around me after my shower, I decided it would be great to pick up my lipstick and powder and everything else that my new look was supposed to be, so I went into the bedroom. I stood in front of the mirror and began tracing my lips with lipstick, smacking lightly to keep the outline even. Suddenly my own eyes looked at me from the mirror-blue-green, with sharp pupils. Ahhhh, how gorgeous they are, I put on my evening gown, turned off the music and lights, started brushing my long hair, letting it spread over my shoulders, then left the apartment and quickly went down the stairs. There was an old Chevrolet in front of my house, but it was so luxurious, and I opened the door and sat down in the passenger seat. He started the engine, and we drove off without speaking. I mean, we occasionally exchanged a few words, and then I smiled. I realized that this ride was the beginning of a romantic adventure. Sounds mysterious, doesn&apos;t it? I liked it, though. Especially the music. I sometimes sang along to myself, and my heart became unusually light. I never knew I had such a pleasant voice. I don&apos;t know why. I guess my voice was low and husky, like a kind of slow purr. I really like this music. Imagine sitting in a car with a man who has this, you know, velvet voice, and I&apos;m purring to myself. I&apos;m in front of a deserted city at night, black as an operating room, and I&apos;m purring to myself at the top of my lungs. It doesn&apos;t matter if I can&apos;t remember the words, because you can hum as much music as you want. Especially when it&apos;s there. And when it&apos;s not there, you don&apos;t hum it. Do you understand? So I hum it. That&apos;s it. That&apos;s why I like to ride like this, with my eyes closed. I even look a little bit like a bird. We stopped at a traffic light, it was the longest traffic light of my life, and I just wanted him to kiss me right now, and I don&apos;t care if they start honking, I hope they&apos;re watching. Oh, what? Green light? How I wanted him to pull into the parking lot and help me remove my seat belts. But it didn&apos;t seem to be on. He didn&apos;t move at all. How fast are we going, take me where I want to go, I want a ride, I want to make you, turn the lights off.</p><p>Please turn off the lights, the lights are about to turn green and I&apos;ll stop. - I asked. - I want to look at them. I thought he heard me, because he stopped, and then he hit the gas even harder.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[About wrapped in water....]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2022 20:49:51 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Hi all, I hope you enjoyed the series Wrapped in water, but I have to take a short break from this series so that this creation doesn&apos;t seem like it is made up, but during the break I will please you with a new work which I now want to write, will be several completely unrelated stories based on the music I was listening to when I was writing it. I love you for your attention to my work. Tweet me, I&apos;m interested to hear what you think. With love, your humble servant. https://twitter...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi all, I hope you enjoyed the series Wrapped in water, but I have to take a short break from this series so that this creation doesn&apos;t seem like it is made up, but during the break I will please you with a new work which I now want to write, will be several completely unrelated stories based on the music I was listening to when I was writing it. I love you for your attention to my work. Tweet me, I&apos;m interested to hear what you think. With love, your humble servant.</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc" class="dont-break-out" href="https://twitter.com/temchaua">https://twitter.com/temchaua</a></p>]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Wrapped in water (page 15)]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2022 22:37:16 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In front of us stood an enormous, black-covered demon, with bloody heads in its hands like a sandwich of human remnants. There was an unbearable stench of blood in the air, and the demon looked at us with eyes full of anger and hatred. Its aura was so dense and hateful that it was almost impossible to see the boundaries in it. The ranks of warriors stood silent. Their faces expressed only sorrow before imminent death, and as wrinkles of horror formed, they turned pale as quickly as if they ha...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In front of us stood an enormous, black-covered demon, with bloody heads in its hands like a sandwich of human remnants. There was an unbearable stench of blood in the air, and the demon looked at us with eyes full of anger and hatred. Its aura was so dense and hateful that it was almost impossible to see the boundaries in it. The ranks of warriors stood silent. Their faces expressed only sorrow before imminent death, and as wrinkles of horror formed, they turned pale as quickly as if they had just been struck by a flurry of snow. And then the real nightmare began.</p><ul><li><p>&quot;DON&apos;T STOP, SOLDIERS, WE HAVE TO TAKE HIM THE SOLAR SPLUTE&quot; Jin shouted, then swiftly headed towards the demon with lightning speed as he approached it, holding his huge glowing swords in his hands. But the monster continued to stand still, as if it did not bother him in any way, although the clacking of its teeth could be heard within a couple of kilometers. Then it made a quick but completely silent movement with its head. Jin struck. I saw his sword fly in an arc, leaving a long red trail behind it, but it seemed infinitely long, the sword over the demon&apos;s forearm, and Jin himself curved unnaturally and flew away toward his men. He lay on the ground for a few seconds, then jerked his head up and stared at me.</p></li><li><p>&quot;Don&apos;t stand there like jerks, all of humanity depends on it, KILL HIM! &quot; Jin shouted furiously, whereupon a swarm of soldiers rushed at the demon, but to him they were like soft toys, mere insects. With his huge hands made of a clot of black substance he scattered from side to side, the battle with the demon was like a salute of flesh and blood, we had no chance of defeating him, and the only wound Jin inflicted on him, and I stood, standing in place like a stalemate.</p></li><li><p>&quot;Really, really, did I chicken out..... BECAUSE I WANTED IT SO BADLY! I WANTED TO FIGHT FOR HUMANITY, MYOKA, I WILL FIGHT FOR MYOKA!!! YOU WILL NOT TAKE HER AWAY FROM ME! DAMNED CREATURE! &quot; - clutching the sword in my hands until it bled, sobbing I said. The rage filled me from within, I rushed at the demon headlong, as soon as I swung the sword, I received a hefty kick to the jaw, and collapsed to the ground, and in a few centimeters from me flew a black blob released by the demon. Collapsing to the ground I saw Jin on a copter who saved me from certain death, he hovered over the demon like an eagle over his prey, a few seconds later I jumped up and went to fight the demon, Jin was not supposed to fight himself. In my mind the battle was supposed to be high speed, only battles like this, where two flaming red sword blades spun in an unthinkable dance amongst the blood. I had no idea how a demon was supposed to do battle. The demon kept changing its shape, from red to black, from black to gray, and finally back to red, and all the time I was attacking, there was no other way I could kill the demon. I tried everything-attacks of power and speed, deceptive feints, balancing blades. Normally I&apos;d dodge one attack before I could attack another, but this time the demon attacked on its own. He unleashed a black flame on me, which I countered with another swing of my sword. It was like swimming in an icy ocean; the icy ocean came down on me from all sides, and it engulfed me, and instantly I was completely cold. In my eyes I could see the battlefield, my eyelids growing heavier and heavier, I could only see sparks in the battlefield, when suddenly Jin stuck his blade into it and a beam of light burst out of the demon. When I came to, it was already dark and I was in some kind of desert. There was a demon standing in front of me. He held his sword in his hand and stared at me intently. I couldn&apos;t see any grimace on his face, no matter how hard I tried. It seemed as if I was looking into his mind. He wanted to say something, but I suddenly realized that I knew what he wanted to ask. He was asking himself-why was he hitting me with his blade? I didn&apos;t know why he was hitting me. He touched my forehead with his index finger, and said:</p></li><li><p>&quot;You call us demons, but what are you? We&apos;re just a reflection of what&apos;s inside you. We don&apos;t hide in your shadow, no, we are it. We are simply reflections, of which you are one. No one is leading you through this darkness, because you yourselves move in it all the time. &quot; - after these words the demon pushed me and as if falling into the abyss, I thought this flight would be endless, but I woke up from the words:</p></li><li><p>&quot;Wake up, I beg you, wake up, I love you, I can&apos;t be without you, WAKE UP! &quot;Mioka screamed with her hands over her face, but even through them a stream of tears poured out, and there was Jin, looking at me with a nonchalant face, as if I had to give him some kind of answer.</p></li></ul>]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Wrapped in water (page 14)]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2022 21:14:08 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Conor stood among the line of soldiers and walked slowly but confidently from the beginning to the end of the line, peering into the faces. He did not say a word, but each of the soldiers could tell by his eyes that he was looking at him, just as he looked at himself in the mirror."All right, soldiers, today, we&apos;re going to have a sortie, the first one, for the recruits who have joined us for special training," Conor shouted, looking around the ranks."This will be the main exam of your l...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Conor stood among the line of soldiers and walked slowly but confidently from the beginning to the end of the line, peering into the faces. He did not say a word, but each of the soldiers could tell by his eyes that he was looking at him, just as he looked at himself in the mirror.</p><ul><li><p>&quot;All right, soldiers, today, we&apos;re going to have a sortie, the first one, for the recruits who have joined us for special training,&quot; Conor shouted, looking around the ranks.</p></li><li><p>&quot;This will be the main exam of your lives, the beginning of a new era. &quot;And he slammed his fist hard on his left shoulder, making the brass plaques on his officer&apos;s harness jingle.</p></li><li><p>&quot;SOLDIERS, HITCH UP THE COPTERS! &quot;Conor shouted, glancing around the formation in front of him.</p></li></ul><p>The soldiers strapped safety ropes to the copters, then activated them and soared through the sky like racing bolides. Conor looked them over. In this mission we were commanded by Commander Jin, we were to go to an abandoned ship where experiments on Baguai people had once taken place, ending in the disappearance of humans. However, Conor decided there was another reason why we should have gone there.</p><p>We flew for a few hours, a little rain water doused our heads and refreshed and energized us. Jin kept turning back, and I could see behind him the glowing dots of the flares he had just launched. As soon as our bodies cleared the fog, a ship appeared before us. The flare meant that we had to board the ship. We approached the ship, and Jin grew darker and darker.</p><p>&quot;All hands to the bow of the ship! &quot; he commanded. We obeyed and, pulling up, boarded the ship in seconds.</p><p>More than 50 soldiers boarded the ship and drew their swords from their scabbards. Bodies, clothing, and other goodies were lying around, and there were camping tents where the high command must have dwelt. All this suggested that our previous copter flight had been one of the last, or very, very rare. We approached the nearest body and saw a man whose body was concealed by the canvas of the tent. There was a huge hole in one side of the canvas. We saw a hand clutching the hilt of a sword. Jin stepped closer and drew the sword, hilted in the body. There was a strange mixture of surprise and horror on the slain man&apos;s outstretched face. The sudden clang of metal made us look away from the noise, and what we saw there changed our lives forever.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Wrapped in water (page 13)]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2022 23:07:49 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA["Myoka, come here.""Yes, Mistress Natalya, I&apos;m listening.""Bandage the young man&apos;s wounds.""Yes, ma&apos;am."There was an unpleasant smell coming from the young man, or rather that smell enveloped the whole room, it was gangrene, bandaging could not help much, it was only a way of antisepsis, he needed amputation, but to relieve the pain, Mioka made a bandage and administered an anesthetic intravenously. She examined the young man once more, he was young and handsome, his face was v...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<ul><li><p>&quot;Myoka, come here.&quot;</p></li><li><p>&quot;Yes, Mistress Natalya, I&apos;m listening.&quot;</p></li><li><p>&quot;Bandage the young man&apos;s wounds.&quot;</p></li><li><p>&quot;Yes, ma&apos;am.&quot;</p></li></ul><p>There was an unpleasant smell coming from the young man, or rather that smell enveloped the whole room, it was gangrene, bandaging could not help much, it was only a way of antisepsis, he needed amputation, but to relieve the pain, Mioka made a bandage and administered an anesthetic intravenously. She examined the young man once more, he was young and handsome, his face was very calm, but Myoka knew that very soon his face would be distorted by suffering and pain.</p><p>Mioka turned to Mistress Natalia, &quot;Mistress, I have done all I can, he needs a serious operation.&quot;</p><p>Mistress did not answer; she looked silently at the young man. Mioka and Natasha understood each other without words, and, without hesitation, left the room.</p><p>&quot;Myoka, we don&apos;t have the resources to help everyone here, some of us can only have compassion and take away the pain before they die,&quot; Natasha whispered. They crossed the hall, their footsteps becoming muffled and quieter. Mioka took a deep breath, as if to calm herself, but then she walked faster.</p><p>&quot; Yes, I understand, Mistress..... It&apos;s just, there&apos;s just one person I care about who could have been in his place,&quot; Mioka said, pressing her fists to her chest and letting a little tear escape her lips.</p><p>Her mistress understood, but real tears welled up in her eyes. Natasha, her soul and her whole worldview had been wounded in the same way, and she was experiencing the same pain.</p><ul><li><p>&quot;There are many different ways in this world,&quot; Mistress muttered.</p></li><li><p>&quot;There is the wind that drives the sands. There is the serpent that pulls the pearls. There are people who think they want to become strong and wise. There are, of course, people who think they want to become rich. There are those who think they want to be happy.&quot;</p></li><li><p>and, so that Mistress would understand her feelings, she added, &quot;There are also people who want to be kind and fair&quot;-and Mioki&apos;s eyes widened somewhat.</p></li></ul><p>Mistress nodded. She, unlike Mioka, knew a lot about life. Their gazes met and were filled with sympathy and understanding. Myoka, sniffing her nose once more, pulled herself together.</p><ul><li><p>&quot;Madam, I want to join in support of the DRG, I want to be a medical officer on the front lines! &quot; she said. Mistress thought for a long time. Then she looked up at Mioka. There was a puzzled expression on her face. She looked at Myoka for a while, and then she held out her hand to her. Mioka put hers in hers, and they exchanged long, cool fingers. The gesture was very affectionate, and Myoka furtively took a breath. Mistress ran her palm over her cheek. It was soft and gentle. Mioka took a deep breath. Her face suddenly flushed with embarrassment. She smiled as she looked into her eyes. Myoka felt completely light and free. Her heart beat fast and strong.</p></li><li><p>&quot; Where love leads you, child. That feeling gives joy, laughter, warmth, but so does destruction, death, and oppression. But each of us has our own way, is that really what you want? &quot; she asked. Myoka nodded affirmatively.</p></li></ul><p>Mistress sighed. Myoka suddenly saw that all the wrinkles on her face had become much deeper. She felt unbearably uneasy.</p><p>&quot;So be it, Myoka. I&apos;ll make the transfer. Everything has a reason. But also, everything has a beginning and an end. said the Mistress. Myoka nodded her head again.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Wrapped in water (page 12)]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2022 22:36:50 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A few more months passed, and we had to choose the direction of our further education My path had been determined even before I entered cadet school, and I did not deny my choice, I was still planning to join a subversive reconnaissance group. Every day I became more and more focused and cold-blooded. It was time to show my resolve. " SO, SOLDIERS, NOW YOU NEED TO CHOOSE YOUR NEXT DIRECTION! NOW, Gentleman Conor will come forward," said Instructor Kane. Conor stepped into the middle of the pa...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A few more months passed, and we had to choose the direction of our further education My path had been determined even before I entered cadet school, and I did not deny my choice, I was still planning to join a subversive reconnaissance group. Every day I became more and more focused and cold-blooded. It was time to show my resolve.</p><p>&quot; SO, SOLDIERS, NOW YOU NEED TO CHOOSE YOUR NEXT DIRECTION! NOW, Gentleman Conor will come forward,&quot; said Instructor Kane.</p><p>Conor stepped into the middle of the parade ground and raised his hand up. Then he looked down the line of soldiers, all the officers in front of him, and then he fixed his eyes on me. His eyes lit up. It was as if he had read in my eyes some major thought. And, embarrassed for a moment, he slowly lowered his hand down.</p><ul><li><p>&quot; Comrade soldiers, on your first mission, it is likely that 80 percent of you will lose your lives, 60 percent that it will be for nothing. You will never turn the tide unless you are willing to sacrifice everything. Those who want to join us, please step forward. &quot; he added, pausing spectacularly. The soldiers were tensely silent, staring at the floor.</p></li></ul><p>I took another step forward. My heart sank. What could I offer in exchange for my life? How badly do I want it? At first I couldn&apos;t even answer that question-how could a person &quot;want anything? &quot; And yet I realized, with horror, that I wanted it badly. Excruciatingly, monstrously, irresistibly. So much so that my mind was blurring, my heart was tearing, and invisible drops of sweat were dripping down. I just couldn&apos;t resist the urge. I looked behind me at the soldiers, to see if anyone else had taken a step forward, if anyone else had decided to sacrifice his life. There was fear in the soldiers&apos; eyes, and their trembling eyes were fixed on the floor. Out of a hundred soldiers, no more than thirty took a step. Apparently they were the most desperate.</p><ul><li><p>&quot;Thank you, for the hope born for this ship, your lives will be the foundation for a new world,&quot; Conor said solemnly. He spoke sincerely, even with a kind of undercurrent of relief, as if having overcome the mountain, he felt the space and liberation around him.</p></li></ul><p>&quot;Please, follow me soldiers! You will be given your uniforms and you will begin a new phase of training! &quot; Conor replied and walked confidently down the aisle ahead. The soldiers followed him.</p><p>As we followed Conor, I moved my gaze from the floor to the side where I saw Mioka in her medical gear. Her attentive eyes found mine and she smiled encouragingly at me. Then she turned and walked to the infirmary Her silhouette was visible through the transparent door. I looked back to see the others. Everyone looked dejected, but there was determination in their eyes; they were ready for anything.</p><p>But my head was clouded with the thought that, was Mioka going to leave the ship, too? She was always there for me, for everything. Besides, I think she knows what she&apos;s doing. Maybe she needs her freedom, too.</p>]]></content:encoded>
            <author>artem-krivosheya@newsletter.paragraph.com (Artem Krivosheya)</author>
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