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Anna Volovodov's exhausted wife struggles to preserve kindness and family life in asteroid-stricken Abuja.
Three months after the Free Navy's rocks strike Earth, Namono lives in Greater Abuja with her wife Anna Volovodov and their daughter Nami. Ash, hunger, failing utilities, and the fear of another impact have turned a gentle retirement into a daily ration line. She is ashamed of needing aid and briefly resents both a harried relief worker and an elderly neighbor whose care will demand more of her.
Anna's moral clarity draws her back from that bitterness. Namono returns home with their meager supplies, sees how deliberately Nami is performing cheerfulness for both mothers, and agrees to check on Old Gino despite her exhaustion. Watching harmless-looking meteors burn across the damaged sky, she recognizes that even beauty has been remade into a warning of death.
A dark-skinned woman whose exhaustion shows in her wracking cough, black phlegm, tears, and depleted patience; she shares a compact, ash-streaked Abuja home with her family.
Namono makes the planetary catastrophe intimate: a former helper forced to accept help while trying to keep her family humane.
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