Christopher Golden by X-men Codename Wolverine

Author:X-men, Codename Wolverine [X-men, Codename Wolverine]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2011-07-02T15:52:13+00:00

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Once out of East Berlin, Warsaw was a straight shot across several hundred miles of Eastern Europe, mostly made up of farmland, small towns, and several rivers. They had been fortunate enough to find a Wartburg truck sitting overnight behind a clothing store in Alexanderplatz, particularly since motor vehicles of any kind were increasingly rare the deeper behind the Iron Curtain one might delve. But Team X did not feel fortunate as the truck bounced and rattled along the road that would take them to Poznan, Poland, which lay sleepily along the Warta River.

They had lit out of East Berlin as dawn approached. Though they had undergone a certain amount of scrutiny, that was completely normal for a nation as paranoid as East Germany. Still, Logan had been stunned that they didn’t have more trouble.

“They’re looking for Western spies,” Silver Fox commented as they bounced along in the back of the truck. “Western spies would be insane to get in a jam in East Berlin and then go further into communist territory.”

Wolverine had smiled. But Fox was right. The border guards had looked them over carefully, but not with the air of soldiers looking for spies. North was German by birth, and he knew the language and customs well enough that the guards didn’t seem suspicious at all. At least, no more so than their job demanded.

One of them had even given Maverick a cigarette.

The Polish countryside was completely different from East Germany. Though at first it had looked the same, it quickly became obvious that the atmosphere in Poland made it nearly another world. The pressure and the paranoia seemed to lift the further they got into the farmland. Early risers tilling their fields or making their way along the road by foot or horseback waved as they passed.

Logan had always admired the Poles for the way they had held their heads high under the yoke of communism. But he had never felt any benefit from their fortitude until now. The peasants in Poland had resisted the Soviet-style collective farms, and most of the nation’s land remained in private hands. The sense of the value of the individual was not dead here.

He suspected that these people would neither be on the watch for spies, nor would they be likely to care much if they actually found some. Warsaw might be another story, more than likely overrun by Soviet agents. But the Polish countryside offered no threat to Team X save for the chance that they might pass communist authorities on the road.

For now, they concentrated on making sure their transportation didn’t break down before they reached Poznan, where they hoped to find enough fuel to make it to Warsaw. At the rate they were traveling, however, it would likely be midafternoon at the earliest before they reached the Polish capital.

Creed, Logan, and Fox had been quiet for some time in the back of the truck. In the front, North drove in silence, sometimes humming to himself. He was comfortable here, Logan realized.

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