9[SUP]th[/SUP] of May 1953
The plane started its slow descent on the San Salvo International Airport. Jaak Kuusk was looking outside the window, seeing the old Tiburan city. He tried to smile as he finally saw the final destination of their journey.
“Mother, when can we return home?” asked Katarina Kuusk, his little sister of only 8 years old.
“Soon, my dear. Soon.” Responded Leena, the mother of Katarina and Jaak. She didn’t want to sadden her daughter and she also knew that she wouldn’t understand their situation, especially at her age.
The Kuusk family left Kuressaare two days ago when the police beaten the demonstrating students and killed one of them. They stayed in the countryside trying to escape the continuous fights in the capital, but when the Generals signed the Raasiku Declaration, things were clear. If they want to escape all this chaos, they need to get out of the country. In the night between the 8[SUP]th[/SUP] and 9[SUP]th[/SUP] of May, they came again to Kuressaare and managed to take the last flight to Alderburgh in Ivernia. After exchanging two more flights, they finally arrived in San Salvo. In the city where their aunt Kadri moved more than ten years ago, they hoped to find the peace they needed and were stripped of by the fights in Kuressaare and the coup.
The custom papers were quickly completed as most of the documents were already done by the Potenzan embassy in Kuressaare. They took afterwards a cab to the apartment of their aunt, hear the Ponte Vecchio.
Kadri Kuusk moved to Potenza at the behest of some businessman from San Salvo that came to Saaremaa when the timber industry was opened to foreigners around fifteen years ago. Jaak couldn’t remember his name. When she moved, most of the family tagged her as a whore. But now, this whore was seen at the most balls and conferences held by Potenzan business men in the capital. From the letters received from her, the family understood that she broke up with that Tiburan and now she was single, but they couldn’t explain how come that even if they broke up, she remained with a large apartment in the heart of the Old Town and money to maintain it. The family couldn’t and when rumors appeared that she may be involved with the Potenzan Mafia… they wouldn’t even want to know. But nevertheless, they were happy when they received the message that Kadri would accommodate them until the crisis in Saaremaa is over.
“My god, Jaak how much you grew up!” she literally screamed when she saw them for the first time.
“Hello, aunt Kadri.” Jaak said hugging her.
After she greeted Katarina, Leena and her brother Andrus, she offered them lunch and then went to help them take their luggage in the rooms that were designated to them. Though both Leena and Andrus continuously asked for forgiveness for their intrusion, the responses from Kadri were the same: “No… now at least the house doesn’t feel so lonely anymore.”
Now that they finally arrived, some things needed to be done in the following days. Enrolling Katarina to a school for the third grade that would start in the autumn and for Andrus and maybe even Jaak, as he was eighteen, finding something to work; Leena agreed to help Kadri with keeping the apartment clean and well maintained. Their future in Potenza was just now starting.
The plane started its slow descent on the San Salvo International Airport. Jaak Kuusk was looking outside the window, seeing the old Tiburan city. He tried to smile as he finally saw the final destination of their journey.
“Mother, when can we return home?” asked Katarina Kuusk, his little sister of only 8 years old.
“Soon, my dear. Soon.” Responded Leena, the mother of Katarina and Jaak. She didn’t want to sadden her daughter and she also knew that she wouldn’t understand their situation, especially at her age.
The Kuusk family left Kuressaare two days ago when the police beaten the demonstrating students and killed one of them. They stayed in the countryside trying to escape the continuous fights in the capital, but when the Generals signed the Raasiku Declaration, things were clear. If they want to escape all this chaos, they need to get out of the country. In the night between the 8[SUP]th[/SUP] and 9[SUP]th[/SUP] of May, they came again to Kuressaare and managed to take the last flight to Alderburgh in Ivernia. After exchanging two more flights, they finally arrived in San Salvo. In the city where their aunt Kadri moved more than ten years ago, they hoped to find the peace they needed and were stripped of by the fights in Kuressaare and the coup.
The custom papers were quickly completed as most of the documents were already done by the Potenzan embassy in Kuressaare. They took afterwards a cab to the apartment of their aunt, hear the Ponte Vecchio.
Kadri Kuusk moved to Potenza at the behest of some businessman from San Salvo that came to Saaremaa when the timber industry was opened to foreigners around fifteen years ago. Jaak couldn’t remember his name. When she moved, most of the family tagged her as a whore. But now, this whore was seen at the most balls and conferences held by Potenzan business men in the capital. From the letters received from her, the family understood that she broke up with that Tiburan and now she was single, but they couldn’t explain how come that even if they broke up, she remained with a large apartment in the heart of the Old Town and money to maintain it. The family couldn’t and when rumors appeared that she may be involved with the Potenzan Mafia… they wouldn’t even want to know. But nevertheless, they were happy when they received the message that Kadri would accommodate them until the crisis in Saaremaa is over.
“My god, Jaak how much you grew up!” she literally screamed when she saw them for the first time.
“Hello, aunt Kadri.” Jaak said hugging her.
After she greeted Katarina, Leena and her brother Andrus, she offered them lunch and then went to help them take their luggage in the rooms that were designated to them. Though both Leena and Andrus continuously asked for forgiveness for their intrusion, the responses from Kadri were the same: “No… now at least the house doesn’t feel so lonely anymore.”
Now that they finally arrived, some things needed to be done in the following days. Enrolling Katarina to a school for the third grade that would start in the autumn and for Andrus and maybe even Jaak, as he was eighteen, finding something to work; Leena agreed to help Kadri with keeping the apartment clean and well maintained. Their future in Potenza was just now starting.