“We will die when we have completed this task, not so, mon ami?” Petacci asked of Teuns.
mon ami“Yes, all will die, except for me,” Teuns answers in a listless but sincere way.
“You will all be shot except for me. I will stay in Dutra. El Karima needs me. She loves me, and I love her. So I will be kept alive, and all the others will be shot. El Karima told me so.”
This is why Petacci chooses to stay on the side of the French Foreign Legion for now rather than take Dietrich up on his offer to take them to the coast. He wants to live. A small smile appears on his face while he lies in the dark, musing. He wishes D’Arlan was here right now. D’Arlan is a brave and resourceful man who would have had some plans. But they never saw D’Arlan again after they departed from the desert. “I will hav
