"How much longer are you going to sit your ass out here underground? We've been stuck inside a barbed wire fence like prisoners for three months now, and what's the point?"
Still on the gymnastics bars, I gritted my teeth and cursed silently. The one-legged captain was driving me crazy with his daily whining. As soon as Kolovanov had more or less recovered from the amputation of his leg, he began demonstrating an insatiable and not always appropriate thirst for activity, pestering everyone around him. First, he demanded that the girls in the sanitary block immediately get him a wheelchair. He drove Kristina and Tatyana so crazy that I actually had to search for one in the ruined hospitals in the surrounding villages. For that damned wheelchair, Konstantin Ivanovich, Kristina's group, and
