["The City of Thieves"]

[fiefoe]

Well, after the cannibals, how bad can it get? It turned out that it was violence against a young girl that finally broke the back of my stoicism. David Benioff, you win.

Leningrad under siege:
__ Spires draped with camouflage netting,.. the Church on Spilled Blood...
__ The broadcast metronome was Piter's beating heart and the Germans never stilled it.
__ Badayev Mud, they called it, taken from the ground under the bombed food warehouse and packed with melted sugar.
__ "Fritz burned the whole (zoo) to the ground. Betty the elephant... You never want to hear an elephant dying."

__ It was, according to everyone, a fair offer, so my grandmother asked them to double it.
__ "The secret to winning a woman is calculated neglect."
__ The fear would drains away like dirty bath water.
__ Words were stuck inside my head like salt in a caked shaker.