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Box1: Nightingale bird were on tree.
Box2: The bird left its nest, flying. A silhouette of tree. Sunrise in the forest.
Box3: The bird landed in another tree, but there's a military cap nearby. Sky now looked light blue
Page 2
Group 1 Alexandrov Ensemble performing songs in health post. The bird who listens the singing looked small
[Current location: ????, 3 August 1941]
Page 3
Box1: One member conduct with his own hand
Box2: The other member singing songs
Box3: The soldiers listening, include the injured ones
Box4: The concert done, clap sound heard, the members bowed. Some soldier said "Again! Again!"
Page 4
Box1: Suddenly there's a bomb exploded
Box2: A captain shouted, "Dammit! Why they never seems to take any rest? Troops, we have no choice! Operation starts earlier again!". Background: Soldiers start to grab their weapons.
Box3: All members looked rushed too when took their weapons.
Box4: Meanwhile the injured looked concerned.
Box5: German tanks shot another projectile.
Box6: Meanwhile some soldiers brought the machine gun.
Page 5
Box1: The bomb explode again, killed some soldiers
Box2: The struggle still going on. The sky turn from blue to black to purple
Box3: Battle ended. Many soldiers came back with frown face.
Box4: Meanwhile the members gathered by themselves too. And the conductor counts them with surnames.
Box5: The conductor start to surprised, "Where's the other people? They didn't come back??".
Box6: Maksim looked concerned, "Where are Dima and Vadik...?".
Page 6
Box1: The bird lowered its head
Box2: The bird flying, leaving the scene.
Box3: The bird reaches another tree. Blue sky in the steppe.
Box4: The bird landed. Saw some members from Group 2 of Alexandrov Ensemble talked each other.
[Current location: ????, 24 August 1941]
Page 7
Box1: "We lost 3 people in this week..." "This is awful. Although until now we could perform in each rest time, still we lost some important part like bass voices and the trumpeter"
Box2: "What do we do now?" "We had no choice. We had to keep going." The bird tilt its head.
Box3: One member shouted, "Okay guys, let's gathered! We will sing these songs..."
Box4: The bird's head back to normal, trying to listen to what the members discussed.
Page 8
Box1: The members make the usual position, but some of member choir looked sad when scoot. They said "Sorry for taking your position now, friend..."
Box2: The conductor lift his hand.
Box3: The choir start singing.
Box4: Soldiers looked at the source of song
Box5: And some sits near them.
Page 9
Box1: The bird lowered its head again
Box2: The bird flying again, leaving the scene.
Box3: The bird found a pond and drinking for a while
Box4: The bird flying again.
Box5: The bird reach an abandoned home. Sunset in the village.
Page 10
Box1: Group 3 of Alexandrov Ensemble performs in an open field
[Current location: Odessa, 14 September 1941]
Box2: The soldiers and civilians clapped, some whistling.
Box3: Semyon smiled.
Box4: But suddenly Semyon's eyes narrowed. His expression turn into tense.
Page 11
Box1: Semyon pull out his handkerchief.
Box2: A strong wind suddenly came from Semyon. Everyone cover their head.
Box3: Then Semyon point out, "Hey, seems there is one enemy hiding near us!"
Box4: "What? Really?" Few soldiers going to the directions that pointed by Semyon
Box5: They came back and caught an enemy soldier who looked like his hair just got windstorm.
Page 12
Box1: Oleg approach Semyon, "How did you know that, Sema?". Semyon replied, "Let's say that was a bit of hunch. Or I saw a shiny metal at there while all of us put down the gun."
Box2: The bird lowered its head. Anatoli approach them, "This is great. Captain said the enemy was a Romanian sniper. He will provide good informations..."
Box3: The enemy dragged to a tent while the soldiers only watch them
Box4: A bonfire. Night sky with many stars.
Page 13
Box1: A captain said, "Luckily he quickly gave up with the interrogation and answers our questions. So the plan now to do a raid next night. Here's the locations..."
Box2: The captain give the instructions while the soldiers listening.
Box3: Semyon sitting near a tree. The bird looking at Semyon.
Box3: "You have seen enough today, birdie. You see, we had no choice than to kill other human who attacked us first..." Semyon looked at the bird with a wink.
Box4: The bird seems surprised.
Page 14
Box1: The bird flying again, leaving the scene.
Box2: The bird kept flying alone, no matter some planes fly around, bombs exploded.
Box3: The bird reach an apartment which looked pretty bad. [Moscow, November 1941]
Box4: The bird lands and chirped.
Box5: Alexandrov lying in his bed sickly while holding bread, heard the chirp.
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Box1: He walked with heavy steps
Box2: And watch the bird who finally stop chirping and looked Alexandrov.
Box3: "You seems flew from a very far place, didn't you? You looked tired" asked Alexandrov in calm tone. The bird landed on Alexandrov's hand and peck on the bread.
Box4: "And I could sense you have seen many things that you don't want to see... I understood. Yes, nothing good nowadays in everywhere. We had no choice..." Alexandrov looked at his left, with frown face.
Box5: The bird lowered its head, make the last weak chirp... before died on Alexandrov's hand
