White Eagles by Elizabeth Wein

Author:Elizabeth Wein
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781781129098
Publisher: Barrington Stoke

CHAPTER 14

It was over five hundred kilometres to Budapest, and Kristina reckoned she had plenty of fuel with her tanks full. It would take about five hours. But from looking at the map, the navigation wouldn’t be as difficult as she’d feared. She could follow the railroad, and that would guide her over the Carpathian Mountains. After that, she would pick up the Tisa River for the second part of the journey.

Kristina folded the map carefully, so she’d be able to refer to it in flight. Then she climbed out of the plane once more. No one was nearby.

“Jump out quick,” she told Julian. “Have a pee behind the wing if you need to and then get back in. I’ll go around the other side – it’ll be faster than taking turns.”

Julian was fast and careful while climbing out and was back in the rear cockpit before Kristina had put her tunic on again and was ready to swing the propeller.

Kristina couldn’t see another plane anywhere in the sky as she took off. But to the north and the east, ominous trails of black smoke rose here and there, darkening the horizons. Poland was burning.

Kristina flew south‑west.

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