“Such as?” The Captain still looked skeptical.”Well, in one section, she mentions using her invisibility spell to sneak into a building. Unfortunately, at no point in the journal does she explain how the invisibility spell works, which is really frustrating. Nor is that an isolated example. Do you know how to levitate?”Greaves opened her eyes and then shook her head. “No. I’ve thought about it, but I’ve never managed to come up with anything that works. I have heard of an Indo mentalist who could levitate stuff but only at second hand. He may not even be alive now as that story has been around for years.””I haven’t worked it out either, but then I’m still struggling to master the ordinary stuff and haven’t really put much thought into it.””Is your grandmother still around?””No. well, probably not.””Probably?””Well, over the years, she faked her own death on several occasions, and then she would set up a new life somewhere else. I never actually saw her body as it was a closed coffin. She was officially a hundred and five, although she only looked to be in her eighties to me just before she died. I was very young when she died, so my memory is not reliable. Having read her journal, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if she was masquerading as a woman in her sixties somewhere, possibly out west.””Are you being serious?”Unlike earlier, this was more of a polite inquiry. He opened the palms of his hand in a gesture of not knowing.”I actually think she’s dead this time. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have her journal. On the other hand, if in a few years’ time somebody said they’d seen in Nuzeeland I wouldn’t be at all surprised.”The Captain sat back and considered this. Then her eyes opened wide, and she stared at Andrew.”Wait. You said that officially she was a hundred and five. Yes?” Andrew nodded. “How old was she really?”Andrew took a moment to think about his answer and then decided to tell her the truth.”My grandmother was one of the original Tellies in North America. She happened to be far enough away from the main site that she wasn’t killed in the nuclear attack.””Holy Shit!” The Captain studied him for a moment. “You’re serious, aren’t you? That explains why you’re so strong.” Andrew decided not to tell her about his grandfather. Captain Greaves studied him in silence for a bit longer and then shook her head. She pulled up the latest map of the frontlines that had a computer displayed on the wall to the left.”This is the situation at the moment, as far as we can tell. Intelligence on foot is almost impossible, with their mentalists spotting anyone almost immediately. Drones keep getting eliminated as their cyborg’s lasers can knock them out at several kilometers range if they spot the drones.”Andrew moved slightly and turned his head so he could study the map better, which allowed Captain Greaves to study him in profile without him realizing. His face looked leaner and harder than it had when she had sat next to him on the train.