Prologue
Andrei was born 24 years ago when life was still on the surface. He was a small boy when the nuclear apocalypse occurred. Andrei and several thousand others survived by taking refuge in the deep underground tunnels of the St. Petersburg metro. Andrei was a stalkers apprentice that lived at Avtovo, one of the Sothern most stations on the red line. He was just returning from a normal suicide mission from the surface with his mentor Vladimir. But soon Andrei will face more adventure than he wanted. Will he step up, and learn what it takes to survive?