Not in Peace and Not in War (слэш)

Victor shivered in the cold, hands outstretched to the barely burning fire. Snow swirled slowly around him, wind whistling in his ear. Whistling what? He couldn’t tell. He couldn’t even tell where he was - somewhere in Eastern China, surrounded by tree and mountains, the enemy to the south and the home he could never return to in the north. Victor had nowhere to go.
 
His hands trembled - he wasn’t sure if it was from the cold or from fear. He had plenty to be frightened of; the gunfire from Mukden, the threat of being caught and executed for desertion, starvation, the brutal elements …
And the Japanese man asleep across the fire, hand clenched tight around the pistol that never left his sight.
Victor was very much afraid of him.
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Two deserters from enemy sides in the Russio-Japanese war struggle to survive in their escape, with nothing much more than their sheer will to stay alive against the elements, the wilderness... and just maybe the Russian army itself.