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One day, as Chornobyl NPP (our main character) and Duga (her best friend), was been on walk, talking about some stuff that wasn't been neither funny nor philosophical. Just casual talking about their interests — Chornobyl NPP's, which was mostly coding stuff, programming and just games in general, while Duga was mostly interested into a nature (mostly birds) and caring for nature in Chornobyl's Zone — and as always, they never understood each other, but still having good conversations, even if with some arguments. Slowly but surely, as they walk more, the nature looks itself at them — as if listening to each word, each phrasing, each accent of them. But eventually, it was just RedForest, whose eyes was so big with such a big non-human orange from radiation ears with fluffy tips on it, that she could hear anything… even the radiation from Chornobyl NPP.
All of them was been affected by radiation, and Chornobyl NPP felt… bad about it. But despite never sharing feelings with her friends, scared of them to leave since after the nuclear disaster they distanced from her until came back with new look — RedForest became from green to more of orange even after each season, though her home was been burried so she just was sleeping underground, with a hole, like a rabbit since RedForest was quite small comparing to Duga — While Duga was been the tallest one of this company of friends, having nowadays deformed face with nose and weird looking arms with no hands and legs without any feet (as result of radiation, surely). What interesting is that most of the characters doesn't got a hair much — as if having treatment from radiation called time — except for RedForest, her hair was long as should be and ginger as shouldn't be, and a bit Chornobyl NPP (whose hair was created by scientists as part of the treatment with safety stuff like New Safe Confinement from radiation).
— Just asking, but… how old are you now, Chornobyl NPP? — Asked Duga, coughing a bit and laughing nervously with her disturbing look of mounth and nose.
— Around 48 year old for now, birthday is oooon the 26th September… — Chornobyl NPP chuckled, wigging a bit her horse-like tail.
— Alright, I am almost the same age. A bit older, surely, but not younger than you, right? Though I don't remember my birthday, you know…
Chornobyl NPP tsked, doing eye roll, but still then nodding.
— Well actually the oldest, even if the smallest, is RedForest… Though her name was surely different, maybe?… — Duga asked with rhetorycal question, still making fun of their fluffy forest friend in positive way despite seeing her angry cute face.
— Yea yea yea, don't you remember it's been… around 40 years since the fucking nuclear accident of mine? — Chornobyl NPP did a grimace with her eagle nose, sharp eyebrows and thin lips.
— Of course I remember, idiot. It was quite a disaster, in a way. But thankfully, science blessed us… even if we got some bad look.
— Hey! Stop saying that you're ugly even if not saying directly about it! — Chornobyl NPP, despite her tone, laughed, not even trying to make a friendly hit of her friend.
— What?
Both of them stopped on the way, looking at each other confused. RedForest, as usual, started to make jokes about how romantical it was to say, while Chornobyl NPP noticed how much blushing she were.
— STOP RIGHT NOW, REDFOREST AND DUGA! — Chornobyl NPP screamed at them, making sounds with her horse-like legs at the back and bird-like too in the front. — OR I WILL PUSH YOU BOTH ON GROUND!
Both started laughing — RedForest more loudly, while Duga's laugh was disturbing as her look.