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An injured pastor in ravaged Abuja keeps insisting that exhausted people owe one another care.
Anna Volovodov lives with Namono and Nami in Greater Abuja after the asteroid strikes. Her leg was crushed in the disaster and remains swollen, but she is already arranging a small prayer circle and receiving parishioners' support from bed.
When Namono returns exhausted from a ration line, Anna gently refuses the easy excuse of fatigue. She reminds her wife that solidarity is hardest not during the first emergency but when suffering drags on, and sends her to make sure their elderly neighbor is not left alone.
A handsome woman with a Russian smile, grayish drawn complexion, and a badly injured, swollen right leg; she rests on cushions in a small, clean family home.
Anna is a moral anchor for her family and congregation amid Earth's protracted catastrophe.
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