"Nick told me that in Chernobyl there were a lot of unknown phenomena that modern science could hardly explain without careful study. Day after day these young and talented scientists entered the collapsed reactor�s premises trying to curb the unleashed demons. They entered the nuke hell like martyrs, stripped of their everyday clothes and clad in immaculately white cotton robes. This clothing had to be burned after each shift, since it was covered with radioactive particles. Nick " and the other guys as well " saw a lot of strange things and experienced odd sensations there, in the Zone. He had never expanded on the subject, saying with his usual quiet smile �Hey, student, you�d better not ask, who needs your bad dreams afterward'.� But once he mentioned some weird growth they had discovered just under the reactor�s hall..."
�Vladimir Dubisskiy/Antigonish Review #122
