next to him.

The soldier coughed, he tried to get oxygen but didn’t get it good enough, soon he took a last breath and his eyes closed. The soldier was finally dead. Kat shook her head slowly and grabbed the soldier’s collar and ripped it off his neck, she then stared at Kodi.

”This is what we will face everyday!” She said to him, then walked away to help someone else. Soon the whole group started moving forwards, leaving the dead soldier just laying there, ignored.

Balto who walked next to Jetz looked towards the dead soldier. “Shouldn’t we bury him?” He asked a bit curiously then saw the SS officer who was walking next to Trase.

”Bury? Tsha we haven’t buried soldiers since we arrived in this hell, he will be gone in two days if someone will eat his body,” Jetz snapped dryly and spit onto the ground, he was also bad looking, his uniform and fur were dirty.

Balto nodded he thought that he sounded stupid in front of a soldier he still wasn’t so sure why, but he felt that something was bothering him…

”You have to just lead us to Nome, that’s all what I you can do for us, most of these brave dogs have faced hell and I have lost many good friends down there, and I think that not all of these soldiers will see the daylight tomorrow…” Jetz said and sighed, he was worried about the dogs that were with him. They had been abandoned, no transport no food nothing useful…

Scope walked next to Ralph, everyone could see that he had something on his mind, but they didn’t say anything.

”So what’s up sled doggy?” Scope started with a small giggle.

”What do you want?!” Ralph snapped and walked farther away from Scope, who made a small smile across his face, usually Scope didn’t like it when someone will do those sorts of things.

”Nothing interesting, you can’t give anything to me so why should I want something from you?” Scope snapped and giggled a while, suddenly Kodi jumped in between them. “Get away from near my friends soldier!” He shouted to Scope who let again a small smile that grew across his face.

”OK OK fine then,” Scope said and walked off, no one didn’t know what he was going to do but no one was going to complain about that right now…

Balto walked up next to a wounded officer, his rank was Major. “Are you OK?” Balto asked him with a small smile, then yawned for a bit, Major only gave look at him and was quiet.

”Are you OK?” Balto replied hoping that the major would talk to him, Katchi noticed this and walked up next to the major.

”He can’t talk… The SS cut his tongue off when he was in prison,” she explained and look at this poor shepherd who was sad, his rank was good but life wasn’t anymore…

Balto nodded and walked away to see the other wounded ones, he noticed that most of these soldiers were bad looking and dirty and their wounds are even worse than what he had seen in his life. A few ones didn’t have a tail, leg, or something more, they had been torn off in battle, and one soldier had only two legs. A grenade had taken two off, he was lucky because he didn’t bleed to death.

He then walked again back next to Jetz who nodded at him. “Now you understand what makes the difference between a sled dog and between soldiers?” He asked and sighed, Balto nodded, but let Jetz to continue.

”You are maybe a hero of one town, we are forgotten ones, from towns we have been thrown away, vets they will kill us, in woods SS, hunters, wolves will kill us, we have no place to stay, this was Antoria, you still smell the burned flesh around?” Jetz said and sighed again…

”I have… Never thought about these kinds of things, you know… I have never talked with a soldier…” Balto said unless this was his first time when he talks with one straight.

”You thought only, for soldiers there aren’t so many anymore, war is soon over, there isn’t so much left, most of them have new duties,” Jetz said with a smile.

”What do you mean?” Balto asked feeling a bit confused.

”Meaning that most of those soldiers have a new job, no killing anymore, the SS is beat down now! No job for trained soldiers so they will take new jobs, Guard, Sled dog, who knows those are the famous ones…” Jetz explained. The day was halfway, but the trip had just started…

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The night closed in on them, Kodi didn’t enjoy the company the soldiers gave him. Wounded ones whined pretty much, that took on nerves, even for Medics. Kat had walked away from the wounded soldiers, she had heard enough…

She wasn’t so sure what to do, but she was a bit down. “There are too many wounded,” she said with a sigh then walked back to help the wounded soldiers, on her way she met Trase who had taken care of the SS colonel.

”Evening,” he said with a small grin to her, “Guten abend,” the SS soldier replied with a small nod. Katchi nodded back and sighed while she passed them both, she went to sleep like many others.

Speedy who always had some more heart than the others gave a small blanket to Kat, and walked back and joined the other soldiers. Kat woke up on that and watched him going back to the team, she shook her head and enjoyed the blanket.

Kodi didn’t join the soldiers. Soon Little Brother and Scope had noticed that he didn’t want to join, and stayed with the others far away from them. Scope whispered something to Little Brother and they both started to walk towards the sled dogs.

”What do you two want here?” Fang snapped and showed his fangs, Scope ignored him and same did Little Brother.

”Heya I heard that you are called Kodiak, is that true?” Scope asked and coughed a bit in Fang’s direction, everyone would understand that it was an insult, but only for soldiers.

”Well what do you want to have from me?” Kodi asked and grinned at Scope who looked at Little Brother.

”Want to join me and the other soldiers? We know many good stories that we often tell,” he explained. Kodi refused like Scope had awaited and soon Little Brother grabbed him by his scruff and started dragging him after him, Kodi shouted for help but Scope only bowed to the other dogs.

”We won’t kill him, only talk,” he explained then ran after Little Brother. Thunder, Dusty, Ralph, Kirby, Ray, May and Hacke followed soon, only Fang didn’t.