TamsinI am rank one and I have been rank one for two years, and I have been dropping for six weeks and told nobody.

RabI know. Everybody knows. That is why the wall is crowded at six on a Friday.

TamsinSo we file on each other.

RabWe file on each other, in the yard, where it counts for the most, and we both countersign, and neither of us can do it to the other without agreeing to be done to.

He puts out his hand. It is ink-stained and it is shaking slightly and he does not hide either of those things.