I'm not sure if the Bolivian Council understood what had happened. They obviously felt the absence of the Rectors—but it was a certainty that Ignacio got it.

"Please don't, Ignacio," I said softly. "Please."

What stopped Ignacio from killing first and asking questions later was most likely the knowledge that he could only focus on killing one of us at a time, and that would have left him open to attack from the rest of us. He seemed to know we knew this, and we still ...