Female Villager's Letter
(Written in Russian)
My dearly beloved,
It has been a year since you left to go work in the mines. I thank you for your service. And of course, I am thankful to the one who gave us this opportunity, the one who saves us from despair.
You were supposed to be gone for only a year. That was the term. Yet you have not returned. Why?
But not just you. Friends, other villagers...they disappear and never return.
I've heard rumors--of poison gases and beasts and unspeakable horrors and I don't want to say what else.
I hope you return home as soon as possible. I'm waiting for you.