She keeps the thought to herself, mostly because she's aware - had been aware since he knocked on the door - that the most they could have done was buy her some time.
Not that she says anything. She just snorts, bites the inside of her cheek, and keeps walking.
Finally, she says, "Do you know how Bruskin recruited me? Initially? He was a commissar during the Siege of Stalingrad, and he'd heard what I'd been getting up to. So, he found me, and he said, 'bring me five Nazi dogtags, and you can have this chocolate bar'. I was fourteen, and starving, but even then I thought that it was a bad idea. NKVD, taking an interest in you?" She shakes her head.
"It's funny what a bar of chocolate gets you. But, you know what," she adds in an abrupt change of tone, voice coming faster. "If you're taking me back, then the least you can do is buy me a decent meal."
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She keeps the thought to herself, mostly because she's aware - had been aware since he knocked on the door - that the most they could have done was buy her some time.
Not that she says anything. She just snorts, bites the inside of her cheek, and keeps walking.
Finally, she says, "Do you know how Bruskin recruited me? Initially? He was a commissar during the Siege of Stalingrad, and he'd heard what I'd been getting up to. So, he found me, and he said, 'bring me five Nazi dogtags, and you can have this chocolate bar'. I was fourteen, and starving, but even then I thought that it was a bad idea. NKVD, taking an interest in you?" She shakes her head.
"It's funny what a bar of chocolate gets you. But, you know what," she adds in an abrupt change of tone, voice coming faster. "If you're taking me back, then the least you can do is buy me a decent meal."