One day has passed, since the start of their journey, and they weren't even close to the next village, because they fell asleep in the middle of their travel.

"Good morning" said Andrej who yawned and dusted his coat off.

"Good morning" replied Katarina.

"How can you stay up so early?"

"The better question is why do you keep kicking me when you sleep?"

"Why not?"

"Get up, it's a long travel until the next village" Katarina said, and they immediately started walking, both of them showing obvious signs of exhaustion.

"If i got reincarnated here, will mother and father reincarnate somewhere too?" thought Andrej.

"What are you thinking about?" Katarina asked.

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"Nothing much"

"You could write a book just from your thoughts"

"I don't think i would want that"

"Fair" said Katarina, and they passed a wooden sign, which was half destroyed, but they could still make up what was written on it, the next village, Bagremovo, was about another 30 minutes away.

"By the way, Ivan lives in this village we are heading towards"

"Perfect, we can pick him up on the way"

"Yes, but that won't be easy"

"I get what you are saying"

After some silent walking they arrived at Bagremovo village, which was equally destroyed as their own, all around them were debris and dead bodies, and as they got further into the village, more and more bodies could be found on the ground. They continued searching through the entire village, but they couldn't find Ivan, or his body, if he was dead by any chance, a lot of thoughts coursed through their heads, but they continued their search, eventually finding a small house which was mostly intact, they went to search it, and inside they found Ivan, who was reading a book and drinking, like nothing had happened.

"Really?"

"Oh welcome, didn't see you there, come on, want a drink?" Ivan said as he closed his book and offered them a cup.

"Yeah, sure" Andrej and Katarina sat down and started drinking with Ivan.

"So, do you know why all of this happened?" asked Ivan, but Andrej and Katarina just watched in silence "I understand, it's hard to talk about, i also lost my grandfather, the only person who accepted me in my family, but let's change the topic"

"Yeah, for example, what were you doing until now?" asked Katarina.

"You know, just went here and there"

"That sounds just like you" said Andrej "I'm going to sleep a little, is that fine?"

"Of course, let me show you where the room is" said Ivan, who took Andrej to a room with two beds, and he laid on one of them.

"Karna's words and actions made me think about my selfish wishes, that is why, i will make sure that nobody will ever experience the same pain Katarina and i did" thought Andrej while falling asleep.