Trafika Europe 7 - Ukrainian Prayer

Maria Matios Sweet Darusya (Novel Excerpt)

It was so nice there – that it was almost terrifying, the way, perhaps, a weightless soul is before the gates of heaven. White as though woolen snows lay from the top to the bottom as an immovable shroud, sewn just by the black peaks of the silver fir and beech forests, and tattered in patches of warm settlements above which a fragrant smoke curled.

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