Volume 1, No. 1

Banquet / Tyrras ... 17 

"Wait a minute!" Bellamy became worried again. "'Life is hard, and then you die.' What does that mean?"
Now it was Morozin's turn to be honestly puzzled. "What? What you don't understand!"
"What do you mean, 'Life is hard, and then you die'? Is there danger? Have I stumbled across some criminal transaction? Tell me Boris. I need to know so I can protect myself."
"Danger? What danger? In the first place, Misha is always around, so there is no danger. And second, it is a plain fact that life is hard. You live in a palace in America or in a hole in Somalia, you have almost same problems every day. And then one day you wake up and you are dead. That's all. No danger. It is plain life, my friend. Didn't you know that?"
Bellamy was silent. He had been watching a tabbly cat grooming itself but it had now stopped as if it were