c0mix illustrations - v2.4

c0mix2, Rapunzel, her iconic long braid carefully tucked away, on a Soviet train in the 1960s. She's in a second-class compartment, the air thick with the scent of strong tea from a provodnik's samovar and faint cigarette smoke. She's gazing out a dust-streaked window, the glass rattling gently, at the vast, unfamiliar landscape – perhaps passing by kolkhoz fields or distant, standardized apartment blocks. The rhythmic clickety-clack of the tracks, the occasional murmur of Russian folk songs from another compartment, and hushed conversations about five-year plans or cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin are her only companions. Her simple, practical dress (perhaps a muted floral print common at the time) is a stark contrast to her fantastical past. What thoughts might be swirling in her mind as she travels through this stark, new world, perhaps clutching a well-worn book of Pushkin's poetry?.