<div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="background-color:#353535; border:1px solid black; margin:10px 10px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;">"Did you? Find any people you know, I mean?"<br/><br/>Ivan leans in, the somewhat moldy cardboard box folding dangerously beneath his weight. He is light, but not that light. "People used to travel a lot, didn't they?" He asks, curious as always about the mythical life before the Metro; before radiation and worse chased them all underground. However many questions Ivan has, he will never be able to truly understand what came before. He's a tunnel rat like all the youngsters down here, used to little food and constant danger. The idea that Vlad's masterful sketches, made with coal and whatever else they can find, used to be a way for someone to make a living is absurd to him. Ivan thinks about the drawing currently lying in one of his pockets, very carefully folded so the edges always stay neat. It's a 'tree', Vlad says, but Ivan has never seen such a thing. He can imagine it because Vlad made the drawing for him, and because he has seen dead leaves that used to be the same color of a plastic container he has near his bunk. Vlad told him so himself. He has also told Ivan that trees grow together, many of them, for thousands of kilometers, and that's called a forest.<br/><br/>Ivan's eyes cloud over as he thinks of the tree, and he hastily looks away from Vlad. He doesn't want to cry. But it seems so unfair that the world used to be so beautiful, and still no one knew when to stop destroying it.<br/><br/>"I want to leave, Vlad," he says, and his voice is shrill. He hates himself for getting so upset over nothing. All he knows is that he doesn't want to guard, and he doesn't want to be here anymore. He wants to see trees, and fireworks, and hear Vlad play something called a 'guitar', because it's a funny word and must make funny sounds. But he can't do any of that if he stays in Tetralnaya - and he can't leave Tetralnaya if Vladimir doesn't come with him.</div></div>