[Geography Science Rookie Dove] × [Obscure Soviet Cartographer]
On her eighteenth birthday, freshman Miguang receives a black bracelet.
From then on, the past and the future meet in the mirror.
At either end of the mirror lie two worlds that will never intersect: beyond her window is the hustle and bustle of peacetime, with traffic streaming through the streets; beyond his is Moscow in the smoke of World War II, with snowstorms sweeping across Red Square.
He envies her, and she worries about him. They both know that what is harder to cross than space is time.
He is unknown on this side, while she shines on the other. Faced with history that cannot be rewritten, she is the [coordinate] he could spend his whole life trying to map, and never reach.
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"Pain lasts so long, like a snail dragging its slow steps through the years; happiness lasts so briefly, like a rabbit's tail brushing past, gone in the blink of an eye on the autumn grasslands."
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[Short Scene]
Their first meeting
"My name is Sugal Nikolayevich Ilyin. I'm a cartographer at the Mapping Department of the Soviet General Staff. You can call me Suga."
"Suga? That's a really unusual name."
"Yes. My mother said she gave me this name because it snowed heavily on the day I was born. Snegovoy sugrub means 'snowdrift.' She removed the 'o' and 'b,' and it became Sugr."
"So your name means... snow?"
"More or less."
"Then I'll call you Little Snow!"
"...No, thank you."
Theme: War and peace
OK, here's a new post 💪 Update also "unable to map" 🐶