Old comrade from the train-crossing days, blind to Marathe's turn

texture · 14 Nov YDAU

• When: 14 Nov YDAU, the Ennet House office, as Marathe weighs his betrayals in front of the House's authority figure.
• What: Running the calculus of his quadruple game, Marathe reflects that the A.F.R. men he has known longest — Fortier and Broullîme, since the days when they stood together tensed at the crossings of many trains, beneath the sky's moon — none of them truly senses that he has lost the belly for this type of work. The beat places Broullîme in the cell's founding cohort and inside Marathe's oldest intimacy, and makes him one of the men Marathe's secret is kept from.