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We kept up our whispered conversation as we passed beneath Admiralty Arch, or a reasonable facsimile thereof.
‘What you did back there at the station, that was really something, Kabir.’
‘Desperation more like.’
‘No, I mean it, you saved my life. None of the other prisoners was willing to take the risk.’
‘Yeah, well I had to. Everyone I’ve ever known has thought I was a wuss, especially Candice. Time to stand up and be counted.’
‘You did that all right, and I’ll be forever grateful you did.’
Kabir looked embarrassed and I realised I liked him a lot. He was a good person. Maybe I’d had the chance to be a good person once, when I was very young, but I’d blown it. I’d chosen a different path, and now I envied people like Kabir who didn’t have the horrors like mine on their conscience
