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She was my first love in my first book yes.   There is another grave ingame also from the book. (Hint yellow brick road)

From the book about her death....  OF coarse reading the whole book will explain who she was

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It has been a very bad time and I am sorry that I have not told you about it.  Eight days ago we lost Grusha to a bear in the woods.  This will be very hard to tell you so you will excuse me.  I am very sad and hope I can finish this story.

It happened on two Sundays past.  We were relaxing and taking the second half of the day off and investigating the weekend market.  Yuna was doing all kinds of trading and each of us had a pile of things with us so she did not have to carry it all.  So we were almost done with almost an hour left in the day.  Yuna made a deal with a citizen to trade flowers he called Matricaria for us in exchange for some armor we could wear while hunting.

Since Grusha had the blade with her still she told everyone to stay while she went and cut the flowers herself.  She knew they were north west of town and said she would be back soon.   I wanted to go with her but was called away by Daria to help her with a citizen who was talking to her about societys. 

So Grusha left by herself north west of town to cut a bunch of plants for our trade.  When it became dark we all started to worry about her.  The citizens were all packing up their items and getting ready to head out of town.  Everyone else was headed to the meal room for our Sunday feast.  But we stayed in town waiting for Grusha to return.

After thirty more minutes we were very worried but it was dark and we were afraid of going to find Grusha and getting hurt ourselves.    This is when we saw citizen Irie again, just about to leave town.  We asked her if he would help us search for Grusha and she agreed to help us.

After she placed her wears in the storage we all went out north west and looked for Grusha.  We searched for about an hour before finally Vasily came up to us with Grusha in his arms.  He was crying and fell to his knees when he got to us. 

We all started crying and before long were useless to each other in the woods.  Citizen Irie was worried about why Grusha had died but stayed with us to protect us.

We finally got Grusha back to the medical center later that night but it did not matter she had died.  We all went to bed without the nights meal and really did not sleep. 

The next morning we woke and went to talk to an officer about what happened the night before.  We once again ignored food and went to find him as soon as the sun rose.  After examination he had found that Grusha was killed by a bear.  We found this weird because we had seen Grusha kill a small bear or at least wound him badly all by herself.  There should not be anything larger than small bear in the area and that is what worried the Corporal.

We spent that day not knowing what to do and really spent most of it in our room.  We finally did ate some food that night.
We heard that the officers went out and killed what they called a bear scout, which they said should not have been anywhere close to NU.  They were very nice to us.  They offered to hold a ceremony and to bury Grusha anywhere we wanted inside of NU.

We spent the next day as a group trying to recover from our loss and find a burial plot for Grusha as we had to bury her by sunset the day after.  I was a slow track across NU, not like any we had had before.  We found various vistas overlooking the different parts of the area and spent most of the day walking endlessly, it seemed untill we finally found the site we selected.

We held the ceremony in the late morning of Wednesday, the 6th of June.   Citizen Irie had come and given us each a set of cloths in Grusha’s favorite color, yellow.  We wore them in the parade we took to her burial site.  Along with us came a bunch of security men.  Gavril and Pitev were there along with various officers and many of the regular security men for protection from the animals. 

Almost sixty friends of Grusha also showed up on our march East.  Many of them were other girls from her and Grunya’s class.   Oh I should talk a bit about Grunya.  She has taken this the hardest of all of us.  In fact many times we have been worried about her own life being in danger.  The other girls have taken it upon themselves to watch her every minute and make sure he has been taken care of herself.

Many times she has become faint and had to sit and stop whatever we were doing.  At the end of our journey yesterday Vasily had to carry her back into town and put her to sleep.  She walked out here with us today, but the security men brought with them a wagon and horses to bring anyone back to town that can not make it by themselves.  This was another caring act they made.

Grusha was not that of religion so the service was run by the lead Security man, a Doctor Butler.   At first he described why we picked this spot.  “This spot was picked because this is where Grusha and her family and friends used to stop for lunch.  They said she loved this spot and could have sat here all day.  She loved to look around below her and watch the animals move about, watch the other pickers work on their rocks, and most of all look to the North East at the snowy mountains beyond Norilsk.”

 “She dreamed of leaving New Urengoy, as most of you do, and dreamed that one day her and her friends would climb on of those mountains and look back on this hill.  Some of you believe she looks down on this hill now, some of you do not.  It does not matter what you think, it matters how you felt inside when you knew Grusha and that you never forget that feeling.  Like the road you see in front of us, it only looks like it ends, it goes on forever in our hearts.”

We had not met Doctor Butler before today, but he spoke of the friends that she had made, how he had talked to some of the WOs about her and how she helped others in NU.  His speech lasted close to ten minutes and amazed us with the effort he took to learn about Grusha.  His final words were this.

“Grusha leaves behind a sister, Grunya, and a direct group of friends.”  Hey pointed towards our group next to the plot.  “She left a bigger hole though.  She will never be able to give her love and excitement for our community to the masses that live outside of New Urengoy.  This is sad, not because she spread her love and joy to all of us.  But because she did not get to spread it further.”

I have not much more I can say about that day.  We all stood around and talked to all our friends before we headed back home to town.  On our walk back home to Town we took the road back, with Grunya and a few others in the wagon.  I walked, I needed to clear my head, to try and figure out what to do next.

I am not sure if I will ever do that or be able to feel as good as I did before two Sundays ago.  But I will try.

I write this many days after that day and I still think about Grusha nearly every minute.  We have been mining only in the last few days, we have not tried to do anything else.  We always end up back at the burial spot, and always end up sitting there and looking at Grusha’s mountians.   Someday I will climb them and look back here.  I know it will happen.

If you want to see Grusha’s headstone, you can see it on NU maps located at 60.43° North and 98.34° East.  It is up there on top of the hill looking down on the end of NU.

Duh why else would I have picked the name. I mean it wasn't like I looked up a list of Russian females names or anything....  duh

kinda interesting the grave is wrote in english in the middle of old russia

I remember dale's book mentioned some German commandos who gathered young people (still can be rehabilitated) and transported them somewhere far away. Good it's not written in German...

To my mind, Grusha is not a name of person. It's a little joke, black humor from devs. 


Grusha is the name of huge music festival - more than 200k visitors, which goes in summer in Samara region of Russia not far from my city.
It changed a lot few years ago, and for many people it is dead now.


http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D1%84%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C_%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B9_%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BD%D0%B8_%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%93%D1%80%D1%83%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grushinsky_festival

it was all me, devs had nothing to do with the name.. 

To me, what was missing from the conversation was that Dedicated Logic adopted Dale's book for this content.