16. Fortress VS Fortress (12)

Traveling companions are both enemies and the group with whom it's easiest to find common ground and reach consensus. This is especially pronounced among soldiers.

In the no-man's land at both ends, separated by barbed wire and a lunar-like desolate terrain, the Sirian Private and Corporal Leimark — who did not know each other's names or faces and could only sense each other's presence through optical lenses, belonging to different races and camps — were staring at everything before them with a remarkably similar mood.

Loneliness, boredom, irritability, depression, and nausea.