“There is no maybe about it,” Teuns says bluntly. “Here in Dutra, just one fate awaits my fellow soldiers and me.”
“In any case, I just had the urge to thank you… If not for you, I would probably be dead, and I appreciate what you have done for me, your enemy.”
Teuns shrugs and gets up. “You are also a human being, are you not?”
Benesj merely nods, and Teuns returns to his seat because the plane has finished its turn and sweeps over the ridges of the cliffs. It banks steeply towards the landing strip that had been hacked out between the bushes and the trees. The plane descends so rapidly that it feels to Teuns as if he is gliding inside the plane. Nevertheless, he reaches his seat in time and grabs onto it firmly, just like the rest of the men.
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