Katya had taken the early hydrofoil out from the outskirts—still in last year's coat—and walked the cobbles with a satchel of notebooks that smelled faintly of pencil shavings and strong tea. She had come with a plan that was mostly hope: to find work as a translator, maybe half a job cataloguing the languages of the Baltic ports, maybe something to steady her until the university paid its small, late stipend. Her Russian was exact but her English had a loose, musical edge from the summers spent in Tallinn with an aunt who loved mysteries and old films. On the pier she met people whose faces belonged to places she had only read about—Finns with wind-bitten cheeks, Estonians who moved like the sea, a Latvian with a watch that ticked too loudly.
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