This answer brought Andrey back down to earth.
"We're leaving at dawn tomorrow," Pavel added. "Be ready."
“Yes sir,” Andrey answered firmly.
5
As the colonel had said, they set out at dawn. The captured Humvee, seized by Max and Pavel when they rescued Andrey, shamelessly guzzled the scarce gas as it carried them briskly along the rough road. Romanov sprawled in the backseat. Vorobyov stood in the hatch, leaning one hand on the roof and the other gripping the machine gun mounted there. Sergei, besides Pavel himself, was the only one in their group who knew how to not only fire a machine gun but also hit it, so they assigned the driver's seat to someone else.
Gronin himself sat next to the driver, and Tolik Cherenko, a stern hunter like Rodionov, was driving. He frowned at the road and
