#103247 - ” ASTRID The immense mushroom cloud towered over me and before me, stretching into the heavens, breaking through its cumulus neighbors and pluming into the pale blueness overhead. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Interlude Three: Masks PETRANUMEN “Death became ever-present in the minds of our parents, and with it, came fear. And the product of that joining, was her.