Chapter 32
Raka’s Plans Go Awry
“Where is she?” roared Raka. He had been waiting nearly a week for Countess Victoria von Baden to return to her castle.
Now that Raka inhabited Werner von Wiesel’s body, he was impatient to put the final stages of his plan into action. But to do that he needed Victoria to travel with him to Bern, Switzerland. There he could trick Werner’s old schoolmate into giving him the compass. He had to get to Einstein before the Countess eliminated him. The delay was infuriating.
Raka was glad to have finally shed the feeble body of Professor Meiss. Yet, even in the newly acquired body of the young, strong Werner, he mused how human shapes and temperaments were so diverse. Over the years, he had occupied the physical form of a German businessman, the aging and decr
