I'm 39, so be it

——↨—— When the sotnik entered the dača (or dætʃə, as friends would have it), the children were all gathered around their mother.

Oddly enough, she was wearing a sotana. 

‘No need to be tossy, Lordy’, she solemnly declared.

‘For fuck's sake’, he ejaculated, ‘I'm not dealing in soterology’. —▬←▬→—