revolutsiya.

ana(stomosis) : a small, textile town split in two by a black river. in the north: the bishop mill, watching over her body as she sleeps. in the south: the rookery, birds pecking at her liver when she wakes. every summer and winter solstice: the town burns the regrets they hold close to their heart, letting the ashes of their biannual pyre flow down that river that bears ceaselessly, ceaselessly onwards --

anya and pierre. the dancers -- oh, forget the introductions! we don't matter. the cast spins around us, but their lines are not ours to control.
upright : cycles, pierre. it's all about cycles, parallels, the movement of time. the rope rises -- heads fall! that's simply the way that things are supposed to go. ah, that idiot on the train can hardly conceptualize his own irrelevance... the idiot at the loom will just have to show him, then, how little he matters in the grand script of things. he will make the choices that he has to make. fate's strings will pull him along like the little puppet he does not know he can be.

tolys mareika. the academic.
upright : karma. fairness. individual desire, balanced against the greater good. tolys mareika arrives on the morning train, entering a town that he's only ever heard about in passing conversations; he believes that the knowledge he might gain will outweigh any sacrifice he must make to get his way. light a cigarette, play your little games. if you can find eternal life on earth, what is heaven even for?

nikolai aleksandrovich korobeiniki. the weaver.
upright : sacrifice. let your own strings go, dearest weaver. to prevent the threads from snapping, you must relieve the tension -- one way or the other. nikolai is a man that has lost much of what he used to have, his sisters and mother swallowed up by the rooks that circle the town like vultures. he will wait... and wait... and let that fire burn him up until he is...

elizaveta lisouskaya. the sculptor.
natalia delovna romanova. the urchin.
matvei dmitrievich alexeyev. the physician.
the tower that casts a web from its windows.
upright : a collective, uncontrollable revolution. the earth shakes, the sky shatters, pierced by the claws of the tiger that's taken up residence in the old tower that rises above ana and watches her fall. elizaveta, natalia, and matvei cannot stop it from happening -- but by god, they can minimize the damage that it causes to the world around them.