Chapter 583
Tatiana was still upset as she was looking at us but Kaley took the ti to check on . She confird that Tatiana didn't go as hard as she did because if the hits were full power, I would've had a few broken ribs and a cracked cheekbone. Ilana was just a few feet away from us but she decided to speak.
“I would sotis really get bored, alright? Add to that that I'm always curious, I'd search for information about anything just to scratch this itch in my head. When I started looking up information about you, her na just ca up and I dug a little bit on her as well. Your story was in her dissertation but your na was altered for obvious reasons. Let clarify because you might ask this later… I sent him your file to confirm your identity but I didn't do the sa thing for her.”
Tatiana scratched her head, “I don't care about that. I only care about her and her family's current status.”
“F-Fine… Like with that other woman… Jennifer Goodman, was it? Let tell you, it's easier to learn about the current location of soone in the US Navy but it's harder to pinpoint a civilian living in Russia. I've sifted through the available lists and… U-Umm…”
Kaley interjected, “And? Did you find her? Her family?”
Ilana continued, “I found close to a thousand nas and they were in the mix of the people who are alive, dead, and missing. But-”
Tatiana's face turned sour but she said as she cut her off, “She's a professor in St. Petersburg and she's older than by only a few years. I last saw her with her husband and her kid but I'm not sure if they're still living in the sa place… She's fairly up in society and her husband is an-”
Ilana interjected, “Let finish. I already know about her, okay? After filtering the lists and checking them over and over, I found her na on two military camps.”
The three of us asked, “Two?”
“Yes. They were first situated in the Viborgsky District and were later relocated to the Kronshtadtsky District. However, umm… I don't know how to say this…”
Tatiana's voice got cold as she looked at Ilana, “Just say it. It's not like I could do anything about it. I just needed to know.”
Ilana sighed before saying, “It seed like the won and children were the p-priority since her husband, brother, and her husband's uncle was left behind. As f-far as I know, the three of them could be finding a way to still get inside and reunite with them by getting conscripted or… heading further north.”
I asked, “North? Why?”
“This is just a g-guess but I think everyone around those parts is doing it. You see, I also spotted several nas that ca from the sa district that was getting logged into the camps further north. I'm not sure about their exact destination but the majority of the people getting checked out of St. Petersburg is almost always heading in the sa direction. Do you have any idea?” Ilana turned to Tatiana.
Tatiana shook her head, “I have no idea. But where are they from last ti you checked?”
“That's the thing… they weren't in the surrounding districts in the area… I found nas of other people in the sa group as them getting to the scattered camps but the three of them are now… m-missing.”
Tatiana sighed, “But Katarina and her kid?”
“Kids. She has three right now and all of them are sharing a room with another… uh… family like theirs. That's all I know in writing and I'm sorry if I can't provide you with so pictures and whatnot. I could only do so much if the other side isn't getting any for proper doc.u.ntation.”
Tatiana just slumped in her chair for a few monts while the three of us were just looking at her. She didn't say a word for a couple of minutes but I had to hand her so wet wipes if she wouldn't wash her hands in the anti. Her eyebrows were twitching violently as she glared at but I got so peace of mind when she actually washed her hands after that rough search. When she ca back, Tatiana had one request for Ilana.
“Ilana or whatever your na is, please do send so updates on their status even if it's the sa thing over and over. I just need to know what they're doing but I'll try and get into contact with her after sending our next set of reports. I'll try pulling so strings to see if they could get better treatnt, be given priority if ever they needed to be relocated once more, or have her husband and the rest of their family get reunited with them…”
I muttered jokingly, “Pulling so strings, eh? Sothing a spy would do…”
Tatiana started grinding her teeth as she started to lose it, “Hngh~ You… You're having too much fun, don't you think?”
I chuckled, “Kinda. But if you're able to pull a lot of strings and the biggest ones… you could at least have them relocated to the best military base or…”
“Or?”
“Set them up with a pilot and send them over here. Greenland is much closer but I personally think our place is safer. Warr too! They could land in the airport Jessica has or we'll just f.u.c.k.i.n.g clear a runway for them. Everything I'm saying is optimistic, to say the least, but if we could pull it off, why not? We'd also be able to get a f.u.c.k ton of resources and quite possibly, check on the first one Oscar put down if it had any differences.”
“…”
“Tatiana?”
Tatiana just faintly smiled before looking somber, “Thank you for the words, really… but I'd be f.u.c.k.i.n.g up everyone else's way back if I ever did that. Our team has one evac call to send a private military plane over here to pick us up if we ever found sothing really important or if we had to go back and have no way of doing so… S-So of us have already… you know… decided to stay after being under you but others still want to head back to their own families. I can't be selfish about this…”
Kaley asked, “So, all of you could just go back if you give the call?”
Tatiana replied, “That's the idea but Artem is the only one that could give that call since he's the one in charge of us. Nikolas is second in line while I'm the third…”
I waved them off, “Then let's just say we have the ans to make it happen. In the anti, use whatever you could to get them better situated in their current location. We'll just work on sothing that's really important so we could work in a trade of sorts without throwing that evac call out the window. I-”
Tatiana cut off, “I'm fine, really. You don't have to do this for . It's not like I'm their fam-”
I scoffed mockingly, “The f.u.c.k are you talking about? If she's important to you, then she's important to us. We've been really close, it's like you are Kaley's mistress, my second wife, or sothing. In any case, you're f.u.c.k.i.n.g lucky you could even reach them. I… I, on the other hand, can't even reach my own.”
Tatiana tilted her head, “Huh? I thought-”
I bitterly smiled as I scratched my head, “I got more family mbers down south in the provinces but I got so very~ important people still in Japan… I'll try and dial them every now and then but even a simple ring wouldn't even happen. I'm f.u.c.k.i.n.g sure that they could f.u.c.k.i.n.g take care of themselves but I'm not even sure if- No, they're f.u.c.k.i.n.g alive but I have no idea as to why they're not picking up. They're not the most tech-savvy people but pressing the green button when it's ringing shouldn't be that f.u.c.k.i.n.g hard…”
Ilana suggested, “I could try-”
I slumped over, “You could… but trust … the only thing electronic in that mountain is the Sat Phone I left to the old man and this old~ black and white Gaboy I secretly stashed from one of my visits with only one cartridge… Other than that, they're still using oil lamps and they're pumping water from a well they dug up on their own…”
Ilana was flabbergasted, “H-How about transportation?”
I chuckled almost lifelessly, “They have a cart… and a horse if you don't want to pull it yourself…”
Kaley already knew the story but this was the first ti Tatiana heard it with Ilana. Their eyes grew larger as I revealed my first eting with them but their expressions turned solemn when they rembered that Japan's governnt was one of the first to shut down. However, I turned the conversation back to Ilana.
“Enough reminiscing, what else do you know?”
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