medik: (in the fields the bodies burning)
𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐑𝐀𝐃𝐄 𝐘𝐔𝐑𝐎𝐕𝐒𝐊𝐘. ([personal profile] medik) wrote in [community profile] ethyraia 2021-05-26 06:44 pm (UTC)

Yakov Yurovsky.

[ 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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