Me, Vlad, and our soldierly friend raced through the fields.
We were half an hour overdue on our rendezvous with the rest of the squad. Sasha were to have my head if I didn't get back in time.
"Come on!"
Tripping over various fruits and vegetables growing. As we hightailed it, we saw a cloud of dust trailing towards us. I looked through my glasses to see... a farm truck. A farm truck heading towards us.
"Hey Vlad? We have a civilian vehicle heading towards us."
"What the heck does he want?"
After a minute or two, the truck pulled up. A dirt ridden man sat in the driver's seat, he spoke in Russian.
I sighed and hung my head. "Vlad, your up."
He calmly walked up to the driver, they had a short conversation. He turned to me, "He's offering us a ride back to Bolshekrepinskaya."
"Sure."
Vlad relayed our answer. Soon, we were bobbing around in the rear of the truck. Dodging farm tools and various bits and bobs.
"One hell of a ride eh?"
"Yeah!"
"Da!"
At least we would get there by sundown, hopefully lessening our consequences.
We arrived at our rally point, a very unhappy Sasha stood at the road. We offloaded, thanked the driver, and started our walk of shame. We walked up to him, standing at attention and offering a salute. He angrily walked up to Vlad.
"You! Why are you late? Sergei has been radioing me when we'll get a move on!" Turning to me. "And you. I ought to have have your rank." The soldier came up from behind me, scolding Sasha in Russian. "Who the hell is he?"
"He's a soldier from the 8th rifle division sir." Vlad answered.
The soldier began talking to Sasha, soon it was a strong conversation. On several ovations, I noticed his eyes flare up. After a while, he turned to me.
"Our work here is done. We leave by six tomorrow. Dismissed." He briskly walked away.
"Guess that guy saved your %*s." Vlad patted me on the back.
I chuckled, "Guess so. We ought to start packing up everything we don't need, less time tomorrow."
"Right."
Vlad walked to the our shoddy little tent as I went to find Afonasii, see how he's holding out.
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