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The Red Engineer is asleep, a soft smile on her lips.  The Blue Spy slips out of bed with a cynical smirk and disappears into the shadows.

A few minutes later, a very quiet knock comes at the Red Spy's door, and the room's occupant glances up.

"Nikolei - "

It is a name he hasn't heard in years.  He cautiously unbolts the door and stands beside it, pistol at the ready.  A single grey eye flashes in the slot made by the open door, then disappears.

"Nikolei Petrovitch.  It's Duclos.  You remember me?"  The voice, thickly French, speaks from behind the door; and the Red Spy's eyes widen.  "Three years ago, in Omsk - "

"I remember.  How do I know you are what you say?"

"Why would I pretend to be zis - a disgraced man?  You know what 'appened to me - "

A pause; a grudging question: "What do you do here?"

"I 'ave a plan.  I need your 'elp.  I am unarmed.  You can search me - "

"Come in."

The Blue Spy enters cautiously; the Red Spy pats him down and gestures to the single folding chair in the tiny barrack room.  "Your plan."

"Escape."

"You are mad."

"I 'ave been always, mon ami.  I was mad when I 'elped you escape ze police, was I not?"

The Red Spy nods slowly, never taking his eyes from the blue-suited man on the chair. 

The Blue Spy glances shrewdly at a small mesh-covered port in the wall.

"Disabled," says the Red Spy.  "I am stupid enough to let you in, maybe, but not so stupid to let the camera work."

The Blue Spy nods at him.  "You and I, we are smart men, hein?  We do not wish to die in zis 'ole.  We can get out.  I 'ave ideas, but I need anozzer to 'elp me, someone wi' brains in 'is 'ead - I come to you, Nikolei."

"Always you need another brain, Duclos.  What is it you think of?"

The Blue Spy starts to speak, cuts himself off in mid-syllable and holds up a hand, whispers - "Do you 'ear somesing?"

The Red Spy is caught out - looks at the door.  The Blue Spy is also staring at the door, a picture of trepidation.  "Is nothing."

"I 'eard somesing, Nikolei - if I am caught 'ere - "

The Red Spy takes the bait, stands up and moves toward the door, takes his eyes from the Blue Spy for that fatal second.

Ten minutes later Marie-René Duclos is humming "Lili Marlene" as he unlocks the door to his own room in the Blue barracks, cleaning the blood from his knife.

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