After the brutal session with the Major on Sunday, it took days to recover from it, so Grandpa pressured the Major into leaving me alone until I was feeling well. With my evenings freed, I could spend the entire day after I was finished with my classes at the firm.
Mr. Hopp, who remained after Mr. Mullens was fired, remained silent for days, avoiding me, especially when Mr. Bamber was around. But it seemed like something made him change his mind, because, one evening, as I was busy translating the Yllamese documents, all of them spread over the table, a dictionary in hand, he approached me. I immediately put all the pages in a folder, as I did when anybody approached my table (the documents were supposed to be secret, after all), and looked up.
He noticed me hiding the documents (I even
