Amber (2015)
“Finishing the coffee, I left the café, ignoring the looks of the waiting staff, and walked up towards the workshop. The letter was addressed from the Santariskes Clinic on the northern edge of Vilnius. Kolya’s message disturbed me. Santariskes Clinic had specialised units for dealing with tuberculosis and Aids, among other things.
The letter had been posted a couple of months previously, and though it was quite possible Kolya was no longer there, it seemed the best place to start looking for him. I had not seen him since returning to Lithuania. Though we had grown up together and had both been posted to Jalalabad, our friendship had become more strained as the months passed in Afghanistan. As Kolya’s problems became worse, he became more unpredictable, irritable and often violent in his treatment of new recruits.
The workshop, when I arrived, seemed colder and more uninviting than ever. It had normally been Vassily who arrived first in the morning.
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