One day Bolot and Arkady walked into the woods and glimpsed reindeer as they brushed their furry antlers against low branches. “They say that a hunter can chase a reindeer all day long only to find, once he has killed it, that the reindeer is a beautiful woman. It happens all the time.” “Really?” Arkady asked. “It’s what some people say.” Arkady didn’t want to contradict him. “I don’t know if Tatiana is a reindeer,” Arkady said. “I do know that she thinks she can escape hunters, and that’s a dangerous assumption.”
