His house has been so quiet without the volume of Tang Fan's life filling it, these last days.

"You're a landsman at heart, but that can change."

Peter Gordon can also have a little a hand injury, as a treat.

Goodsir takes stock of his practicals.

“Do you know how?” Wang Yizhou asks, but it’s all a light tease, and he’s already taking his hand away, as if in expectation.

“Nope!” says Ji Li, confident. Then, in a move that he will recognise, in hindsight, to be the start of the complete undoing of his whole night, he adds, “But I’ll learn. Really quick.” He fishes out his phone from the pocket of his shorts, and holds it up, almost conspiratorial. “Bet I’ll have it down in one video. I’m very resourceful like that.”

Too late for Christmas, too early for the new year. (Or, Hal makes himself inconvenient in as many ways as possible.)

Crozier experiences some uncharitable thoughts in light of one particular shortcoming.

Interviews with the Louisiana PD, 2012.

India takes the cup. (Or: people disappear all the time, but seldom to such scenic locales.)

Wherever he goes, Rodrigues is lost.