Letters to Venus

How do you think a person feels who once lost the ability to move? Who just yesterday could run and jump, but today can hardly even eat on his own?

Sonya could tell you a lot about the difficulties of her existence. It could, if not for the reinforced concrete shell that surrounds it. The daughter of a prominent academician, raised in Russia, she suffered a terrible injury at age 16, under circumstances that are not fully understood, and since then has barely been able to move one arm.

After such a sharp change in her life, Sonya hardly talks to anyone and doesn’t even try to make friends. She has surrounded herself with a poisonous shell through which no one can get through to her. She moves through the corridors of Yamaku like a ghost. There is steel in her voice when she does answer someone. Pale skin, gray hair, empty lifeless eyes, always directed somewhere into the distance...