“What is the point of this?” I ask. “To see how fast you can think. How fast you can move,” Rake says. “I moved fast enough the last time I had to escape the Germans.” “And how, exactly, did you escape them?” Buckmaster asks. “I jumped off a train and ran through a vineyard while they shot at me,” I say. “An entirely unpleasant experience, if you want to know the truth.”
