the heart is slow to learn (смешанная)

“Steve? Do you copy?”
In any other timeline—and OK, maybe this one, too—it would be embarrassing for Nancy to be radioing her ex at 10:30 PM. But she’s tried his phone three times—a phone that was, as one among the lucky half of Hawkins—still working earlier today.
No answer, now. Not on the phone, not on the radio.
It’s the day after the end of the world, and Nancy can’t sleep.