Traveling companions are both enemies and the group with whom it's easiest to find common ground and reach consensus. This is especially pronounced among soldiers.
In the no-man's land at both ends, separated by barbed wire and a lunar-like desolate terrain, the Sirian Private and Corporal Leimark — who did not know each other's names or faces and could only sense each other's presence through optical lenses, belonging to different races and camps — were staring at everything before them with a remarkably similar mood.
Loneliness, boredom, irritability, depression, and nausea.
