A letter to an old friend

[Bussie]

He didn't accept the offer to sit down. Why sit if they could leave at any moment? The colonel glanced at his former mentor with a smirk and replied with a hint of challenge in his voice and even humoring him a bit.

"If you look at it that way, you more looks like someone who welded to hospital bed. But it's not a bad idea in itself, even though your addiction to alcohol will eventually will play it's bad side."

Biryukov added at the same moment, even forcefully delivering the following words to hurry his old friend along.

"You better hurry, because I don't have infinite time, and it's still quite a long flight to town. We'll still have to bring you back later, after all. We'll see if you've kept your wits about you. Do we need a 10-second countdown, or do you think you won't be able to keep up?".