Who Needs a Dream? Who Needs Ambition?

"Perhaps the two of them conspired to commission this, somehow," Anatoly watched the scene critically. "The end of the show will be all about how they saved the day for their glorious nations and the rest of us will just have been pawns in their game."

Focusing on that was better than admitting that perhaps he and Freddie did have things in common besides chess and Florence. That was something for which he was not ready to consider at all.