6Two months later they were on the train.
It was just the two of them in one small cabin.
Silence swept over the dead landscape outside. Darkness broken only by lamps passing. The clicking noise of movement and the streaks of light swaying from the lamp in their compartment filled up the need for anything else to exist in the world.
“I’ve never been on a train before,” Alexei put lightly. “It feels powerful. But I’m not afraid of it.”
“You shouldn’t be,” Dmitri responded. They were both looking out the window, as though they could see the landscape smothered in shadows. Alexei was seated across from Dmitri, so occasionally the man would look to him, watching the young man start to nod off in sleep only to jolt up again moments later.
“When was the last time you slept?” Dmitri asked.
