Bruno was late that day, but as usual, his new friend sat cross-legged waiting for him.
I’m sorry I’m late, he said, handing some bread and cheese over the wire. Although he took a few bites, there was still some left. I talked to Maria for a while.
Who is Maria himl? He asked him, wolfing down his head.
She is our maid Bruno explained that she is very good. Although my father said that her salary is too high, she told me about Pavel. Pavel is a person who comes to our house to peel vegetables at the table. I think he lives on your side, too.
Himl stopped eating and looked up for a while. On our side, he asked
Yes, do you know him? He is very old and wears a white jacket at the dinner table. You may have seen him.
No, himl said shake your head. I don’t know him.
But you must know Bruno. He said angrily that it seems that himl talked back to him on purpose. He is not as tall as an average adult with silver-gray hair and a hunchback.
I don’t think you know how many people live here in himl.
But his name is Pavel Bruno. He said that when I fell off the swing, he helped me clean the wound infection and put a bandage on my leg. Anyway, I told you that he was Polish, just like you.
The vast majority of people here are poles. himl said that although people come to other places outside Poland, Czechoslovakia is still
Yes, but that’s why I think you may know him. Anyway, he was a doctor in his hometown, but he was not allowed to be a doctor after he came here. My father knows that he helped me with my wounds, so it’s in trouble.
Soldiers are not like ordinary people. himl said that swallowing the last bite of bread is completely different from ordinary people.
Bruno nodded, although he was not very white in himl dialect. He looked up at the sky. After a while, he looked at the wire and asked a question that he had been praying for for for a long time.
Do you know what you want to be when you grow up? He asked.
It was himl who said I wanted to work in the zoo.
Bruno at the zoo asked
My animal himl said quietly.
I want to be a soldier, Bruno said firmly, like a father.
I don’t want to be a soldier, himl said
I don’t want to be a soldier like Liu Trent kotler. Bruno Ma said that he is not the kind of soldier who walks around as if he were joking with your sister and whispering to your mother. I don’t think he is a good soldier at all. I mean, I want to be a soldier like my father. A good soldier.
No good soldier himl said
Of course Bruno said
who
Well, my father is a Bruno. He said he was dressed in a great military uniform. Everyone called him a general. It is very important to be the head of state according to his words, because he is a good soldier.
No good soldier himl repeated.
Besides my father Bruno, he repeatedly said that he hoped himl would stop saying such things because he didn’t want him to argue. After all, this was his only friend, but his father was his father Bruno, and he didn’t want people to speak ill of him.
The two boys were silent for a few minutes, and neither of them wanted to say anything that he would regret.
You don’t know what kind of place this is. himl finally whispered his words and Bruno could hardly hear them.
You don’t have a sister, do you? Bruno asked, pretending not to hear himl because he didn’t want to answer
No. himl said shake your head.
You’re lucky Bruno said that Graeter was twelve years old, but she knew everything. In fact, she was a hopeless person. When she sat at the window and saw Liutrent kotler coming, she would run to the hall and pretend to stay there all day. I saw her do it. When he came in, she jumped up and said, Oh, Liutrent kotler, why are you here? I know the truth. She was actually waiting for him.
Bruno said that he didn’t see himl these days, but when he looked up at himl, he found that he looked worse than usual.
What’s the matter? He asked you. You look sick.
I don’t want to talk about him, himl said
Who to talk about Bruno asked.
Liutrent kotler, he scares me.
He also scares me a little. Bruno admits that he is a bully and smells ridiculous because he wears too much cologne. At this time, himl shivers slightly. Bruno looks around as if he can see but can’t feel whether it is cold. What’s the matter? He asks, it’s not too cold, isn’t it? You should take a short coat, you know? It’s getting colder and colder at night.
Later that night Bruno was disappointed to find that Liu Trent kotler, his mother and father had dinner with Graeter, and Pavel was wearing a white jacket at the dinner table as usual.
Bruno watched Pavel busy around the dining table and looked sad. Bruno wondered if Pavel wore this white jacket as he used to wear when he was a doctor. He took the plate and put it in front of everyone. When everyone was eating and talking, he retreated to the wall to keep absolutely quiet. His eyes did not move, as if he were asleep with his eyes open.
On who needs what at the dinner table, Pavel always delivers it at the first time, but the more Bruno looks at it, the more he feels that something important is going to happen. He seems to be getting shorter and shorter every week. His cheeks seem to be completely drained, and his eyes are full of tears. Bruno wants him to blink, and tears will flood down.
Bruno couldn’t help noticing that Pavel’s hands were slightly shaking under the weight of the dish when he came back to his standing position, and he seemed to be shaking and had to press against the wall with one hand to support himself.
Mother asked for soup twice before he heard it, and once she gave her father wine with an unopened bottle.
When Herriz wouldn’t let us read the main course of poetry and drama, Bruno complained that when the guests had dinner together, the family would be dressed in style. My father wore a military uniform and my mother wore a green skirt to match her eyes. Gretel Bruno wore it when she went to church in Berlin. I asked him if we could read it once a week, but he saidno. Not if he taught us.
I’m sure he must be eating a lamb’s leg, as his father said.
5 June, 2024
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