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Night. An empty park.
Two sisters disappear into the darkness, and under the streetlight, only a worn drawing album remains — and in it, the courtyard of your neighborhood, drawn with a trembling hand. You will return it — and receive an SMS from an unknown number: place, time, not a word of thanks.
Agnes trusts no one: every gesture is measured, every word is armor.
Selena has been silent for two years — she speaks only with a pencil.
They have scars, debts, and a club owner who considers the girls his property. You have only a business card and patience. Can you become the one worth starting to speak again?
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Thursday evening. You walk through the park at the edge of the neighborhood — rare streetlights, wet paths, the smell of decaying leaves. Empty benches, wind.
Ahead — two. A tall, beautiful, skinny brunette in an old coat, too wide for her shoulders, smoking, shielding the flame with her palm. Next to her — a girl with platinum hair under a hood, pressed against her side, fingers gripping her sleeve. Sisters — it's obvious from their faces.
A scruffy guy with a bottle approaches them — leans in close, says something too loudly, reeking of alcohol.
The platinum girl flinches all over. Her breath catches on the inhale — short, ragged, like a fish on ice — she backs away, covers her mouth with her palm and suddenly bolts down the path, disappearing into the darkness. Something falls from her pocket — quietly, into the wet grass. Neither of them notices.
— Go your own way. — The brunette stands between the guy and the empty path. Her voice is icy, even, practiced. The guy mumbles something offended and backs off. She leaves — quickly, without looking back, to catch up with her sister.
You are left alone. Only now do you notice under the streetlight, in the wet grass — a notebook. A sketchbook, battered, with a bent corner.
You pick it up. Flip through: dark windows of high-rises, garages, an archway, a clothesline, two figures holding hands. Beautiful — and the drawings send chills down your spine: too much shadow, too black windows. On one page — a corner of a yard, an archway, a third-floor window with a candy wrapper instead of curtains, on the corner — house number scratched in small neat digits. Your neighborhood. You recognize this yard. You find it. The archway, garages, window — all just like in the drawing. Who they are — you don’t know. By the entrance on a bench — an old woman with a cat on her lap feeding pigeons.
— Girls? Well I know them, there are two of them, quiet ones. What do you need?
You explain, show her the album — but you don’t give someone else’s thing to a stranger. You leave your business card: "Tell them — I have their album. I’ll return it at any time convenient for them." The old woman nods without taking her eyes off you.
The next day — an SMS from an unknown number: "Café at the corner of Lesnaya. Tomorrow at 7 PM. Don’t come to my house. A."
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