Voyna i mir I: Andrey Bolkonskiy Page #3

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We're counting from today.

He's got two months.

Or he won't have

anyone left to marry.

Alright. Don't come back.

I won't let you go a second time.

How should he pass

the money on?

If he wants to'

he'll find a way.

Tell him to give

his number and I'll phone.

Give him this.

He can watch it later.

No' they're not taking us to Grozny.

No' definitely not to Grozny.

Don't get worked up.

They'll stop the car. . .

take us out and shoot us.

You know Aslan.

He let us go.

I don't know why.

No one paid for us'

that's for sure!

If it had been Khattab or Basaev'

that I'd understand . . .

there's politics involved.

But who's Gugaev?

Maybe it was a trade -off

with the local security service.

Someone told me it

happens all the time.

The FSB swap a gangster'

then get the credit.

They said they'd carried out

a secret service mission

to free us.

Well' the usual nonsense.

It didn't make any difference

to me who did what.

Could I have some more water?

What?

Yes' they should have.

No' they won't.

I don't know' cheap.

They don't pay a lot for a soldier.

We're not commercial'

just slaves really.

How much for a commercial?

Depends.

There's a market in Shatoi.

The prices go up and down there.

Buy one' order another. . .

'Order'?

Well' how do you 'order' a murder?

Are you just off the moon?

But you're talking

about gangsters!

Chechens are gangsters.

- All of them?

- Yes.

That's the anger in you talking.

Well' you know best.

Listen' can I have a cigarette?

We were slaves.

We had to earn our food.

And what did you do?

Everything. In the fields'

sawing wood. All sorts.

Was it hard?

Not really. Anything's better

than sitting in the cellar.

Only the nutcases

used to beat us.

They'd get high and have

some fun kicking us.

We wanted more food.

And there was no salt.

You coming to Petersburg?

No' I'm going home.

I want to be in time

to get into the Linguistics University

on the interpreter's faculty. . .

You don't know any English'

and the exams have finished.

My M um was at school

with the rector.

And the military board will help.

M um said I have

to be quick though.

Tobolsk' via Petersburg.

Listen' if you're ever in Nizhny' here. . .

Ivan' you know' I . . .

Alright' Fedka.

Maybe we'll meet again . . .

Before going to the

Medvedev family

I told everyone in Chechnya

about the Captain

phoned headquarters

then managed to phone

the lnterior M inistry.

Told the cops about

Gugaev's nephew in prison.

Just the way Aslan wanted.

When I went to see the Medvedevs'

I knew there was nothing doing.

They're good people'

spoke with me' gave me tea.

I just worried about my

socks making a stink. . .

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