Oh those dark eyes, deep eyes, eyes full of life, or perhaps full of death.  Such deep eyes, such dark eyes, but worth losing a soul over?  What is soul in a world of dialectical materialism?  Those eyes, those dark eyes, those imagined kisses and the curves of her breast, her waist and all of her.  Dark eyes, such dark eyes.
Sana joined the squadron later than the others.  If she'd been a man, she would have been flying hydroplanes across the Black Sea, or fought as a member of special forces.  She was born on the site of a battlefield in Makhno's war and her mother always said that War itself was her father.  Sana never knew her father and sometimes suspected that her mother had been telling the absolute truth.

To begin with, Sana flew 077 with Dusya as her navigator.  She did her best to make 077 feel better and ready for the flight.  She thought of the plane as a winged steed and herself as a Polyanitsa, a Warrior Woman, and that of course was fitting.  She said as much to Sergeant Sedova but she had no idea whether Lena was humouring her.

When the boys defaced Yelena's plane, Sana took a different route to that taken by Lena in extracting revenge.  Instead of simply writing graffiti, she became something like Porfiry Petrovich in Crime and Punishment, but unlike Petrovich, she offered sexual favours to Serafima Amosova in return for the vodka she used to pay a bribe to obtain the name of Anton Lukyanenko, the misogynist who had defaced the plane in the first place.  She then wrote a poem on the Ladies' toilet wall in every place she ever went, effectively ending Lukyanenko's sex life.

Sana has come close to death on several occasions and risked death rescuing comrades, but the first time, the time she remembers most fondly, was when Vera Valerianova rescued her from a burning wreck while she tried and failed to rescue the crispy remnants of Natasha, her Navigator.  That is where she got the nickname Firework.  The name was meant as an insult, but Sana accpeted it, no more than accepted it, wore it as a badge of pride.  Perhaps this is why she is still a lowly Junior Lieutenant while those around her have recieved promotion after promotion.

It doesn't matter.  She will bomb all of the enemy capitals into the Asiatic mode of production.

After piloting the Beast onto a highly successful raid on German anti aircraft guns, Sana thought she saw an Italian plane in a field on the way back.  She may have been mistaken.  On returning, she found some unexplained problem with the Beast, which she fixed by attaching a piece of wood to the landing gear.