“Give me an adventure."

In the moment that followed, Cord realized that this sounded weird, and lost her nerve. She held up her hands. "I'm not talking about some massive adventure. Just something that would make getting fired seem small. Something that I might remember when I'm old."

Now for the first time I reviewed everything that had happened in the last twelve hours. It made me feel dizzy.

"Raz?" she said, after a while.

"I can't predict the future," I said, "but based on what little I know so far, I'm afraid it has to be a massive adventure or nothing.”