Taking Risks
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Taking Risks is one of the Documents in Baba Yaga: The Temple of the Witch (additional content for Rise of the Tomb Raider). It belongs to the Grandfather's Journal set, with written notes from Ivan to Nadia. These tell of Ivan's stay in the gulag, the birth of his and Serafima's child, and the will to do something more in favor of the innocent prisoners.
Ivan and Serafima planned to escape together, but they were caught...
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We decided to wait until the winter passed. We hid supplies, we made maps. We planned. I got her a work detail indoors. She helped me find ways to slow down the grinding gears of the Gulag. If I could disable a hydraulic lift, I could keep a hundred men from one day in the mines. Cut the wiring of a few trucks, there would be no special work projects for another week.
I took greater risks. But once I had met your Grandmother, I could not return to the sin of ignorance. We knew that the child would complicate our escape, and she hid it as long as she could.
And then, without warning, they took her away. Our daughter was given to a nursemaid among the native prisoners, and they dragged Serafima away to the Vale.
I tried to stop them, fighting in the open. I stood in front of the transport truck, prepared to kill to save her. But there were too many of them. I screamed my farewell as they dragged me away. I don't know if she heard. Content
