Figure Eight: Dear Rita

“Eight”: Your parents are chosen! Only it turns out that simply choosing a mother and father isn’t enough. A girl nicknamed Eight, waiting for the Appearance along with the other children, faces all the difficulties that can arise on the way home. Neither being born into the chosen family (where another girl has already managed to appear) nor the secrets revealed about adult life on Earth can change her firm decision to fight for her parents… But how and with whom do you fight if everything goes wrong and you’re threatened with Redistribution—after which there is only resignation to someone else’s decision and birth to completely different people? “Dear Rita”: Rita, Sasha’s older sister, lies in intensive care. Sasha remembers their last argument and suffers—not only because she said too much to her sister, but also because she learned from her a secret that the family carefully protected.