Major Gasparyan (Patreon)

When 44 days war started, Aygul was just a little girl. She doesn't remember well what happened then, but she remembers how the ground was shaking from the force of explosions and how the sky was on fire when they escaped. She remembers better how the helicopter took them and some other people to safety. They stayed a few days in the camp near Goris. She remembers how soldiers were grouping, and before heading east, they said farewells to their loved ones. She remembers very well how people arranged a wedding party for her uncle and his fiance before he was leaving with soldiers. She remembers beautiful weddings and a wild party where vodka and zurna were not spared. 

Her family found their place from the shore of the small sea. They didn't return home, and her father said that there was no more home and the land was in the hands of the enemy. Already then, Aygul wondered how she could prevent this from happening to others. But, she was not a man and could not do anything. So, when a child was born among her people, they asked: Was it a soldier or girl? The fate of the girls was to give birth to more soldiers. 

Because family business was good and they were rich, Aygul was sent to the capital to study at Brushow university. It was important to have a certificate from an appreciated university. That didn't mean that she would work as an English teacher, but it was to make her most wanted wife material in their circles. Aygul didn't like the fate that her father planned for her. When she graduated, she managed to over-talk her father to allow her to work as a translator for the local military office near their home. Her uncle was commander of a small foreign affairs unit, and they were short with translators. He promised to supervise Aygul carefully. But, in the foreign affairs unit, she met people from the National security service. Before Aygul realized what had happened, she had worked for them before.  

Aygul had served well, and she felt she had made correct choices, but now she had a problem. Marriage arranged by her father was just behind the corner, and she had fallen in love with a foreigner who she was supposed to shade.