Half an hour ago he and his comrades were still providing aerial protection for a convoy of tankers carrying gasoline from Benghazi to Tobruk, for it was useless to advance the front if the blood of war, as gasoline was still called, did not arrive on time. Pornhat A little more. But no, he hadn’t. He had a headache and was afraid of sunstroke. “Be careful with the water. “Because…,” she started to say, but the sun went down and Melina fell suddenly silent. He awoke long before sunrise and waited like thorns for the first ray. At night I can’t be with you.”
“Wait, wait he said hastily. He looked around the cockpit and considered what to take: the map, the compass, the water canister, the two packets of pesticide, the