I had actually more time to look around, to explore Alba than Mica did. He was so involved in his exercise, eating, and testing regimen that sometimes he did not appear at the dining hall or even the little house until I had gone to sleep. Sometimes the testing lasted all night and into the next day. He studied old books and manuals purporting to encourage mental toughness; he read them together with the doctors who had not themselves examined them but wanted to immerse Mica in total ...