CHAPTER TENMatvey met him at the station.
They hugged.
They didn’t say much.
“Did you get it?” Matvey asked.
“I did,” Sasha said.
“A good gun?”
“Good enough to kill.”
“We’ll give it to our train conductor. She’ll hide it and give it back to you in Riga.”
“The train will take me to Riga?”
“Yeah, where else?”
“How about a visa?”
“We have a fake passport and a ticket in the name of…the passport holder. So now you have a different name…here, take it. Remember your name.” Seeing Sasha’s somewhat troubled face, he added, “The passport is good. Anyway, would you rather jump off the train? Dodging all those utility poles flying past?”
“I don’t know,” Sasha said, noting how naturally Matvey used present participles in his speech. I think “flying” and “dodging” are participles…
“Especia
