“Anton,” he said, “how’s the glider?”
Anton glanced at the clock. “It’s time,” he said. “Let’s go. Dress carefully and everyone take a sack each.”
“Excuse me, but I’d like to determine more exactly,” Saul said, “what we’ll be looking for.”
It seemed to Vadim that Anton was wavering.
“We’ll be looking for disaster victims.”
Saul buttoned up his jumpsuit. “And suppose that no one else here is a victim. I have in mind the hypothesis with brigands.”
“With that variant I would not be concerned,” Vadim muttered.
“In any variant,” Anton said, enunciating distinctly, “I ask you to do absolutely nothing without an order from me.” He walked to the door.
“You’re not taking weapons?” Saul asked.
“We will have no need for weapons,” Anton answered.
“There are enough corpses here already,” Vadi
