Their whole block is family. They don't even go to the shelters during the bombings anymore. Every summer they go to Prijepolje, and their grandfather makes them a little fort in the backyard. Divac is already dreading the day he'll have to tell her how her biological parents were shot on their way to the market by Kosovo Liberation Army snipers. He doesn't need any more stories to tell.
Every night is the same.
He can't sleep. His stomach is a science project. He's lost 20 pounds. He watches every CNN newscaster, trying to read between the lips. He works the Internet.