Stranded (Part Eight)

Final part of the Stranded chronicle series. For sixteen days we fought beneath a merciless sky, slogging through mud and stench as rain pissed down on our heads, cold and vile and never-ending. It filled our packs, our clothes and our weapons. It filled our mouths. For sixteen days we fought, on little food and even less sleep, an enemy that was better equipped, better prepared and almost certainly better paid than us. And for sixteen days we died. “Dead end!” Gastun shouts, his voice barely audible …