Vlada makes it back to the ship in the nick of time and adds to her reputation of always being punctual.
She spends the next six years regretting having done so but gets to keep her job at the Funtasia cruise line for the next decade and puts two of her four siblings through university.
For the rest of her life, Vlada stalks Dasha on Facebook but never actually talks to her in person or online ever again. She doesn’t ‘Like’ any of Dasha’s posts about her marriage to Pavel, nor does she ‘Comment’ when Dasha starts posting photos of their children when they arrive.
At some point, Boris, the drummer Vlada spends the next decade performing with, suggests they go on a date. She declines. In the years afterward, she finds herself feeling for new triggers but never again musters the courage to confess her feelings to any of them, although one of them, a woman named Emily, does become a life-long friend.
She dies at forty from undetected cancer originating from the breast, and converts to Atheism in her last days as a result of Emily’s presence in her life.
Neither Dasha or Pavel or her mother turn up for the non-religious funeral she planned for herself even though Boris invites them. Dasha says later that she had prior familial obligations she could not pull herself away from. Her mother simply expressed disappointment and regret for not having educated her daughter better.
Vlada never found out what a love spell could do.
She never saw again anything quite like it for as long as she lived.
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