“The air around him seems to be glowing. As if someone had dropped a jug with liquid gold. The city is lost in a golden haze ” / Illustration: Zlatin Zlatin The half -dead mongrels, dying on the operating table of the chinchilla, the transfusion of the remains of dog blood in the kitten - every day in the sheated city of the veterinarian Olesya sees only pain and death. But once, on New Year's Eve, soldiers bring to the clinic of the wounded deer, which must be put to sleep.