[ Two things are immediately apparent from the moment the woman starts speaking: one, that is a Russian name, and two, that is a Russian voice, even if he cannot place the krai indicated in her dialect. It's a small comfort, a trace of familiarity in an increasingly bizarre world; though he's occasionally overheard snippets of her conversations with the wounded, the background noise inherent to a place like this has made the suspicion difficult to confirm.
Yakov takes the offered hand, offering a muted smile that fades a moment later. ] With many of these people that is all I can do. All this machinery, these diseases, it's new to me. And I was only ever trained as a medic. [ A beat, then: ] You are Russian.
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[ Two things are immediately apparent from the moment the woman starts speaking: one, that is a Russian name, and two, that is a Russian voice, even if he cannot place the krai indicated in her dialect. It's a small comfort, a trace of familiarity in an increasingly bizarre world; though he's occasionally overheard snippets of her conversations with the wounded, the background noise inherent to a place like this has made the suspicion difficult to confirm.
Yakov takes the offered hand, offering a muted smile that fades a moment later. ] With many of these people that is all I can do. All this machinery, these diseases, it's new to me. And I was only ever trained as a medic. [ A beat, then: ] You are Russian.