Dawn Redemption

As if to light the way on the desolate horizon, the sun has been shining brightly from the beginning of its rise, so that outsiders will not lose their way in this haze.

The car drove into the heavily guarded military area and slowly stopped in the courtyard in front of the gray building.Noah stood under the steps neatly dressed, staring at the car parked in front of the door.When the door opened, sunlight fell on the dark hair of the woman in the compartment.There is no gaudy makeup, but she exudes elegant charm from her demeanor.Even though she is a mother, in the eyes of others, she still does not lose her demeanor back then.

The woman slowly got out of the car and looked at Noah a few meters away.Noah smiled at her, and the woman returned a faint smile.There were not too many words but a silent exchange had already taken place.

"father!"

The little girl jumped out of the car, and quickly ran to Noah's side holding the skirt of the little dress.Noah picked her up, kissed the girl's pink cheek lightly and then put her down.The eight-year-old girl is still petite but full of vitality.Maybe it was because I was finally able to see my father, so I changed into a very sweet and beautiful pink and purple dress, with a delicate crystal corsage pinned on the chest, the chestnut curly hair was divided into two bundles and tied on both sides of the small head, neat thick bangs His big brown eyes shone brightly.

In her arms was a white bunny doll she had carried with her since Noah gave her it for her fourth birthday.Although there are many other dolls in the family, this one has always been her favorite.

"Ilsa," Noah pampered the top of the girl's head, "how is the new school, are you still used to it?"

"That's great," Ilsa blinked, "but I'm always wondering when Dad will come back."

Noah's smile faded, but he still said gently: "Dad has a lot of things. It's because the head of state trusts Dad. I can't be sorry for our country, right?" Ilsa tried her best to put on a serious look and nodded her head. express understanding of the father.Noah smiled and turned his gaze to the woman in the courtyard.

"Seeing that you are doing well, I am relieved." Noah said calmly.

"Me too." The woman approached, hugged Noah lightly and then left.Their eyes met each other's without hesitation.

Noah smiled and nodded, turned around and opened the door and said, "Greta, come in and have a seat, you and our Miss Ilsa must be a little tired after driving for so long?"

The woman named Greta lowered her bushy eyelashes, walked past Noah and entered the room.Noah made another "please" gesture to Ilsa.However, Ilsa looked at Noah, shook her body and said, "Well... Dad, can I play outside? I don't really want to go inside the house."

At that moment, Noah almost blurted out a stern rejection but finally held back.He forced himself not to look at Ilsa's big eyes full of expectation, glanced around and said, "Okay. But you have to promise me," looked down at his watch, "Before ten o'clock Come back here to find me, and you can only play around here, not too far away, okay?"

"Okay!" Ilsa happily shook the two curly hair on her head, and hugged the bunny doll tightly to her chest.Noah looked at her worriedly, but Ilsa made a "no problem at all" expression, and Noah turned and entered the room.

Ilsa hugged the rabbit and jumped in the courtyard for a while, the sun was as warm as a soft blanket.Brightly colored flowers swayed slightly on the trimmed grass.

I always feel that the place where my father is now is very uncomfortable, and it must not be as good as home.Ilsa crossed her hips, and seriously re-examined the gray and white building in front of her.In the end, it seemed that no matter how much I looked at it, I couldn't change the color of it again, so I shook my head and sighed helplessly like an adult, but was attracted by a bunch of flowers.

Hold the rabbit in your arms and pluck the prettiest flower in the bush.

——Picking one or two flowers here should not be scolded by my father.

While saying this to myself, I searched for more flowers.Before he knew it, a large bouquet of colorful flowers appeared in his hand, but when he looked up, he was already far away from where he was just now.The grass here has become desolate, and the bushes are as tall as if they have never been trimmed, but there are still footprints going back and forth on the ground.

I wondered if I should go back along the way.I clearly promised my father that I would only play nearby.

——But how far is "nearby"?

A loud bang like an explosion rushed into my mind.Ilsa subconsciously screamed and covered her ears, but the scream was drowned out by the next loud noise.Ilsa held her little head and shivered, and it took a while before she dared to let go.The area has returned to its previous silence, only the sound of frightened birds flapping their wings and flying away.

Other girls might have run away while wiping away tears, but Ilsa is different from them.

Perhaps because she still inherited Noah's tenacity in her bones, she tiptoed and placed the bouquet on the window sill next to her.The colors of these houses are just as ugly.Ilsa silently strengthened herself in her heart, mustered up the courage to walk in the direction of the voice.

This road is almost hidden by dense bushes. It is hard to find if you don't look for it deliberately.It sounded like someone was swearing, and the voice was very unfriendly.

Ilsa slowed down with some worry, and carefully identified the speaking voice.

She probably only understood half of those sentences, some words she had never heard before, and some words she didn't understand the meaning, but her mother told herself very strictly not to say them.

The voice grew louder the further she walked, and there was always only one voice speaking loudly and rudely.Ilsa couldn't help but wonder if the man was talking to the air, because those words were very, very impolite, and his "interlocutor" never refuted.

At the end of the road, she carefully pushed aside the branches of a shrub so she could see what was on the other side.To her surprise, there really wasn't just one person there, but several.Most of them were dressed in dirty blue and white striped clothes, squatting on the ground as if they were terrified.There was only one person standing, who seemed to be the one who had been talking all the time. His back was facing Ilsa. He was tall and slender, dressed in a neat military uniform, and his short, over-combed hair was exposed under the hat, which was pure golden yellow.

He was wearing shiny high leather boots, and he was pacing up and down in front of those people. There were two pools of dark red liquid splashed on the ground, which smelled very much like the rusty smell of a few swings in the park.Ilsa shrugged her small nose and looked over there holding her breath.

Behind those few people was a tall barbed wire fence, so long that Ilsa couldn't tell whether she was inside or outside.The only door was guarded by two soldiers, standing erect as if a statue hadn't moved, both with black guns in their hands.

Ilsa bit her pink lips and became convinced that this was not a good place.The side of the barbed wire fence was deserted, and thick black smoke that looked dirty at first glance was still rising from farther away.

She was planning to slip away and leave this wretched place, but she didn't notice that the sound had disappeared.The branches and leaves above the head trembled for a while, and Ilsa raised her head subconsciously, but she happened to see a pair of eyes.

The most beautiful eyes she has ever seen.

It was as blue and clear as the sea, and the light from the sky was reflected in his eyes very clearly, like a round sapphire, it seemed that he could look down through his eyes and penetrate his heart.As bright as a mirror, you can recognize your own figure in the light-colored eyes without looking closely.

However, the owner of the eyes was a little surprised at this time.

——Why are there children here?

In Auschwitz, children (without uniforms) are like aliens.

Finn didn't speak, just stared straight at Ilsa.Ilsa shook a little helplessly.But being stared at by those eyes seemed to have no chance to turn around and run away.

"Well—hello, sir," Ilsa kept in mind the etiquette she had learned and gently raised the corner of her skirt. She always felt that she should try to be polite in front of outsiders, although the man in front of her didn't seem to think so. "My name is Ilsa, Ilsa von Seifert."

Finn's eyes widened a little after hearing the surname, and he suddenly remembered that the pair of bright brown eyes in front of him seemed familiar.Ilsa pouted slightly.Anyway, I should respond, at least in exchange, I should say my name.Ilsa suddenly thought that everyone here must be like this, so she secretly began to worry about the environment her father was in.

"What's your relationship with Lieutenant Colonel Seifert?" Finn tried to slow down his tone to the child, although his voice was still cold and uncomfortable.

"Ah! So you know my father, big brother, you are amazing." Ilsa's eyes widened, and she didn't notice whether she was "polite" in her words this time.

Finn was speechless for a moment.I thought in my heart that it would be the most amazing if someone here didn't know him.

But the name Big Brother makes people feel weird.

Since childhood, the name "Fin" has been added with many suffixes and has been called countless times.Or some other title, in short, he has never been called "big brother".

But why, I feel a little hot in my heart...

Finn was silent for a while, and Ilsa kept staring at him with those clear light brown eyes.

"You come back with me, this is not where you should come."

Ilsa's heart sank first. Although her father hadn't reprimanded her much since she was a child, she was still very afraid of making him angry.Just thinking of this, Finn was already a few steps away when he came back to his senses.Ilsa immediately hugged the rabbit doll tightly and chased after her.

Finn's pace was not fast, but the pace of an adult made Ilsa have to trot to barely keep up with Finn. There was no expression on her fair and handsome face at first, she just looked straight at the winding road ahead, but at this moment As if feeling his gaze, he turned his light blue eyes sideways.

Ilsa's already rosy cheeks were dyed a layer of blush again, and even the tip of her nose turned the color of a ripe apple.Subconsciously hugging the rabbit in front of her chest, she tentatively asked: "Big brother..."

"Huh?" Fein slightly opened his eyes, even though he still had no expression.The long golden eyelashes glow softly in the sun.

Ilsa swallowed her saliva and summoned up her courage and said, "Well, please don't tell my dad that I ran here, okay? Although I don't know where it was just now..." Thinking of the previous one made me very nervous. In the uncomfortable scene, Ilsa's voice gradually quieted down, but then she said loudly: "My father won't let me run too far, he will criticize me if he finds out... Please..." Ilsa said He blinked his big bright eyes.

At that moment, Fein's movements seemed to be about to stop, but in the end he continued walking.The moment her thin, shapely lips parted, Ilsa looked at him expectantly, like a child staring at Santa Claus.

"talk later."

It’s over.

Ilsa froze in place, her eyes were filled with tears but never welled up.However, the figure of Fein not far away drifted away without looking back.Ilsa carefully turned her head and glanced at the path squeezed by the bushes with only a gap left. After the bright white sunlight was blocked by the layers of branches and leaves, it was like a defeated soldier weakly festooned on the path.The direction from which it came from deeper has long been lost in the gloomy thick green.

Ilsa felt a chill, shivered inadvertently, and finally trot to catch up with Finn in front.

Noah's keen sense of hearing trained on the battlefield instantly caught the footsteps outside the door, but he still silently refilled the delicate teacup on the dining table in front of Greta.In an instant, white water vapor overflowed, twisted and flowed into hazy textures in the air, and finally disappeared like a gauze curtain, revealing the calm face of a woman behind her.

"Thank you." Greta lifted her teacup gracefully and took a sip.Holding the teapot, Noah's back paused for a moment, and said slowly for a while: "It seems that you haven't said 'thank you' to me for a long time."

"Sir." Before Greta could speak, Finn appeared in the hall.Still standing upright as before, but at the moment of standing still, he looked at Noah who was holding a teapot in his hand, and this action made his brows tighten unconsciously, and the long-sleeping scar on his body seemed to be aching again.

However, all the feelings were forced into the darkened heart by Fein with a cold expression.

Noah just turned around and wanted to speak, but saw a petite figure popping up behind Finn, shaking the two curly hair on his head.It's just that the expression is timid, and there is always a feeling of crying at any time.

"You?..." It felt like the two most discordant people in Auschwitz stood together, like a bright little flame and solid ice.Noah lowered his head and glanced at his watch. There were still 10 minutes until the agreed ten o'clock. "Second Lieutenant Fein, why did you come back together?"

Ilsa glanced at Finn nervously. What was desperate was that Finn's clear blue eyes had been staring straight ahead, and he had never felt such a gaze full of eager hope.

"I saw her on the lawn behind the house, sir. But I don't think it's good for a child to play here alone, so I asked her to come back with me."

Ilsa raised her head in surprise and stared at Fein's expression that was still as cold as frost, without any waves.Not even the slightest shift in the eyes.

Hey, it turns out that big brother lied——

——It’s also so powerful.