Arriving at the observation site, the four of them sit down on some steps. They look like the cast of a music video, embodying various parts of the country’s unbelievably interesting and multicultural youth. None of the children believes in the mission. None has an overarching sense of vengeance. The past is so far removed that it seems like a yellowed old photo. When there were still photos. When there was still a sense of vengefulness. Vague is the memory of excitement—back on the roof of the homeless shelter, the oath and the motivation. They’d imagined that they’d need a mission in their new life but now they realize this new life is itself mission enough. That it’s interesting enough to recognize the transformation of the world and of one’s own body. But. The children are human, and humans don’t talk about important things. The conversation could be short and everything that followed would move in another direction. “Hey, cops-and-robbers is a totally shite game,” one of them could say, to which the others could nod, then they would go home or build a bunker or entertain the idea of constructing an ark. Or emigrating to Iceland so as not to have to attend Europe’s downfall live in person. But they don’t talk. They sit at the observation site.

Two nights earlier

Hannah, visiting the hackers, the Friends, the new acquaintances, had received more information about their victims, which she had jotted down on the list.

Walter, Don’s mother’s ex-boyfriend and sadistic failure,

Lives in one of the smart homes on the outskirts of town.

Idiotic. A little hack in the thermostat controls and you already had access to their network and private documents. They learned from the hackers,

Walter is married, a sex addict, and had taken a remote course to become a religious instructor. Address below.

Dr. Brown, the doctor responsible for the death of Hannah’s mother, heads up a private practice in a basement office, address below, where he conducts abortions and outlandish cosmetic surgery. Lives in a sublet room (address below) and sexually assaults unconscious patients from time to time. Athlete’s foot.

Thome, developer of Dream Island,

Frequent visitor to gay porn sites. 99 percent homosexual. Hasn’t come out. Father plans to take over prime minister’s office. Just as an aside. Lives in a villa on Holland Park, address below. Works in Silicon Roundabout, failure.

Patuk, Karen’s—um,

Owns a nearly bankrupt tailor shop in Savile Row (address below)

Lives in Luton (address below)

Profoundly frustrated. No sexuality, impotent, strikingly frequent visits to Islamist/Daesh/torture/nuclear terrorism sites

Financial problems, single, frustrated,

Peter’s mother

The Russian

Villa on Regent’s Park (address below), operate child prostitution ring

She visits a fitness club (address below)

Whole Foods delivery day, smart apartment without password, ha ha ha.

Sergej, leader of a paramilitary organization, right-wing radical.