does, anyway. I shouldn’t have been able to lose. Yet I did.” “How?” “Someone else rigged the game so that no matter what move I made, I could not win. The game was a tie, something I hadn’t anticipated. I’d focused my cheating on making certain I didn’t lose, but I’d bet on myself winning. And I bet it all, you see—if I’d have been more clever, I’d have let less be lost.” “So,” she said, “how do we set it up so Odium doesn’t win, even if he can’t lose?” Wit
