>>synopsis:

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yelena wanders the zone populated by paramilitaries, influencers and the children of napalm and static breeding across the desert until even its sands dye into the blue-light glimpsed before artillery fire

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teen soldiers, influencers, internet culture, satire, near future, Eastern Europe, Zone, literary, modernism

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by: Nekosattva

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>>chapter 01

the zone flickers with stylized executions by modified assault rifles and pistols, a world abandoned by the old, while yelena and christine remains in throes between teenage riots

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>>chapter 02

another shift at the pizza joint for yelena, spending coins at the arcade where a click of the plastic trigger soon blends into the clatters of machinery from trucks entering into the desert as she searches for christine. welcome to the zone.

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>>chapter 03

on the run from shells and starvation, yelena learns of the resident deity of the zone known only as nay-toe; a voiceless girl soon joins her within the ruins.

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>>chapter 04

yelena and natalia enter a bazaar presided over by nay-toe, a collection of symbols and wares familiar to the shopping mall and plazas where she finds a trace of christine on a dead iphone

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>>chapter 05

yelena and natalia take sanctuary in a hospital under fire and continue learning the ways of nay-toe

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>>chapter 06

the armies and civilians of the glass city reveal their ideologies, their histories and more important to Yelena, the fate of Christine

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>>chapter 07

Yelena is about to learn what her duty as a ‘mahimata’ really is in Little King Samuel’s kingdom - it may not be what she expects, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s any better…

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>>chapter 08

Natalia wanders the wastelands once familiar to her now reduced to debris, and her, an inhabitant of this ruin, much like many within the zone that gesture towards someone outside of it all.

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>>chapter 09

Yelena reunites with Christine and resurfaces long-held fantasies and resentments, as Little King Samuel prepares a rite to fertilize the heavens with force and fire

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