Two Soldiers

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Author: Anders Roslund
Tags: Fiction, Mystery
years old, illegal possession of a weapon, a minor.
    No more president, vice president, prospect. Now its commander, soldier, private.
    The sun was shining when four boys, teenagers, young men, left an empty shopping center and walked through a summer slightly warmer than the last. Råby was seldom beautiful to anyone who didn’t belong there and on days like this the bright light peeled the last layer of color from the high structures and the concrete buildings became, even for Gabriel, Jon, Big Ali, and Javad Hangaround, a gray, airless place and none of them said anything as there was nothing much to say. The automatic door into the underground garage opened as silently as it had thirty minutes earlier and they walked into the cool darkness, a vast cavity that stretched the length of Råby Allé, to an exit in the middle of the garage, a door that said number 34, and then took the lift to the third floor, the door by the rubbish chute.
    She looked about thirty-five, dark hair that had been dyed even darker when gray wisps had displaced time, quite beautiful really, but a pale face, a mouth that didn’t want to smile and eyes that were older than her years.
    “You’re to keep this.”
    She looked at the other white plastic bag with an ICA logo on it, which had recently been on an empty train seat.
    She didn’t answer.
    She pulled the door hard to, but a foot was in the way, she couldn’t close it as long as the one they called Big Ali, who was tall and square, was stopping her with his foot.
    “Five hundred a day. You’re to keep it for twenty-five. Until he comes to get it.”
    “Go to hell!”
    The commanders have the power. The commanders decide the jobs. Soldiers and privates can never refuse.
    She pushed his shoulder with one hand and pulled the door with the other.
    He stayed where he was.
    She looked at the others, half a step behind, the same clothes, the same arrogant tilt as they glared at her.
    She met Gabriel’s eyes. He would look away. And he did.
    A fucking order is never refused.
    “Gabriel?”
    It wasn’t long, but he looked at the floor for a moment, which triggered more words, louder.
    “Gabriel? Listen. Him, get him . . .”
    Never refused. Or else they’ll have 2 pay.
    Then the moment was gone, he looked up, met her eyes, he wasn’t going to look away again.
    “You’ll keep it, bitch, because we want you to keep it.”
    She took a step forward, he didn’t move, her open hand struck his cheek.
    “Don’t you threaten me.”
    They were standing close looking into each other’s eyes without blinking and they knew each other so well and not at all.
    She had struck his cheek.
    He wasn’t quite sure why it was to be kept here, Leon must have his reasons, but he hadn’t moved, hadn’t looked away, hadn’t answered.
    “Don’t you threaten me, Gabriel, you—”
    “ Keep it .”
    He caught her arm and pulled it, not hard, but enough for her to move so that Big Ali could get into her apartment and leave the white plastic bag on the hat shelf.

He stood, as he normally did, by the window next to his desk and the armchairs and the photograph of a daughter who had flown the nest, who he never saw anymore. If he stood on his toes, he could see the upstairs and a tiny bit of one of the bedrooms in the house where he’d lived for the greater part of his life. Lennart Oscarsson spent his days in alternate worlds that were separated by a brisk two-minute walk and he had never wanted to be anywhere else. The town of Aspsås, with its low white- and slightly higher red-terraced houses, and the big detached houses up by the woods, had two thousand six hundred and forty-seven inhabitants. Aspsås prison, with its twelve three-story concrete buildings inside a fence, inside a wall, inside two protective barriers, had two hundred and nineteen inhabitants and it felt like he knew every face out there and in here. He still woke up every morning with the realization that he was someone who would
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