Volume 1, No. 1

Banquet / Tyrras ... 38 

accepted one too. The gawkers had all returned to the dance, he reported to Perogov. From inside the Palace of Culture, the band started playing again. It seemed to Bellamy that they were playing something popular and mournful for he could hear the people inside bellowing louder than the band; here outside, Misha and Fedya quietly took up the refrain. Misha, Bellamy noticed, was eating sunflower seeds again. Harioto was moaning. Bondarenko was holding his hand up to stop the bleeding.
"What are we going to do now?" Bellamy asked, no one in particular.
"Nothing," said Vera. "We can do nothing now but wait. Let's sit there on the steps, shall we?"
Morozin went over to the injured. Harioto and Tanaka were whispering in Japanese; Bondarenko was sitting on the ground next to them, and now Morozin sat down