“Eventually one of them noticed I wasn’t there. ‘Gab es nicht sechs von ihnen? Ich zähle nur fünf Körper,’ she said.” “Scheisse!” Berta cursed in German. “What did they do then?” “Wait a moment, Atticus,” Hal interjected. “I don’t speak German. What was that you just said?” “Weren’t there six of them? I count only five bodies.” “Oh, shit,” Hal said, and grabbed a bowl of popcorn out of Bogumila’s lap. Her visible eye widened comically, but otherwise she made no protest. “What happened next?” he asked, throwing a handful in his mouth.
