[Once #4] After by Morris Gleitzman

Author:Morris Gleitzman
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Facts of Life, World War II, Holocaust, Survival, Children's Books, Family Life, Fiction, Coming of Age, Historical, Growing Up
ISBN: 9781742536262
Publisher: e-penguin
Published: 2012-07-24T23:00:00+00:00

Old ones.

Bigger scars than I’ve ever seen, all coming from the middle of her tummy like a big star.

Doctor Zajak makes a whistling sound that I’ve never heard him make before, and he’s seen some very serious wounds.

‘Incredible,’ he says. ‘If she was able to survive that, she’s not going to be bothered by a simple shoulder wound.’

Doctor Zajak is wrong, Yuli is bothered by it.

I can tell by the way she winces with pain whenever she moves in her sleep. Sometimes she pulls at the bandage as if she wants to take it off.

I watch her carefully in case I have to stop her doing that.

‘Felix.’

Yuli opens her eyes and looks at me.

‘Felix, you have to get some sleep.’

She pats the straw next to her with her good hand.

‘Do your leg exercises,’ she says. ‘Then go to bed.’

I put Doctor Zajak’s thermometer into the corner of Yuli’s mouth.

When I check it, she doesn’t have a fever. Which is strange because she must be delirious, thinking that a medical assistant would even consider going to sleep on duty, specially up the women’s end of the bunker.

I hope she’s not developing complications.

‘How do you feel?’ I ask her.

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