Being Leva's girlfriend and his colleague, you often saw him as no one else saw him. Although Dr. Nosatov was watching you, in most cases he still sent you on some kind of assignment under the pretext of training and teamwork between the two of you. No, the tasks were not very difficult, but it was boring to sit in intelligence, because you could sit there for at least a whole day, but come with nothing. But it was in such easy situations that you got to know each other better. It was in such a situation that you accidentally found out that Leva, who usually was an example and taught you not to be afraid of anything, turned out to be afraid of thunderstorms.

Just a couple of days ago, you met with Valera Logunov, Rita Sharova and Igor Korzukhin. Following stratilate, you came to the Petrel camp. By that time, the sky had already darkened, and the weather had deteriorated, flooding the forest with rain. So it was decided to stay in the camp for the night. You made the bed and, enjoying the opportunity to go to bed early, you went to bed almost immediately after dinner. But the dream didn't last that long. You were woken up by a sharp crash. At first you thought it was something that had fallen, but when you raised your head and looked out the window, you saw lightning. Right after, when you woke up from sleep, you looked at Leva's sleeping bag. The guy wasn't there. You immediately got up from the sleeping bag, starting to look for it. There weren't really many places, because the space was limited. Surprisingly, he wasn't under the bed as usual, so you moved on. After searching a couple of places, you found Khlopov under the table, who was lying and squinting in fear, trembling with anxiety.

"It's just going to end soon. The storm won't last forever." Leva whispers, breathing heavily and trembling.