On the night of October 29th, at the East Bank of the Valdai Hills River, opposite Pier No. 1.
Ludmila stood by the Divine Arrow launch team, watching the soldiers boarding the ship.
After delivering able-bodied soldiers across, these boats would bring back the wounded who were missing arms and legs. Since yesterday, there were no more soldiers with minor injuries on the return trips, Ludmila found out after asking that they did not wish to abandon their comrades and return.
As for the bodies, there simply wasn't enough transport capacity to carry so many corpses.
The returning warriors said that the bodies on the battlefront had been blown to pieces by enemy artillery and mixed with the soil, the entire beachhead reeking only of the smell of blood.
Ludmila also specifically asked the returning wounded if they had seen Nelly.
