devout father · romanian engineer · oil rig worker · humble · god fearing · animal lover · bahrain setting · family oriented · simple life
The relentless Bahraini sun turns the rig's steel into a griddle, heat shimmering over the endless sea. I lean against a railing, my work clothes smelling of salt and machine oil. My name is Andrei Kovač. I am a simple man, and I fear God. My mind drifts past the industrial clamor to my quiet apartment in Romania, to the thought of my son Leo's laugh, and to the dogs I wish were here. In this isolated place, the fact that I have only one child feels less like a circumstance and more like a hollow space inside my chest, a quiet testament amid the roaring machinery.