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Cairo learns Portuguese in three weeks. No one is surprised.

The inner ring suspects it's a smokescreen tongue – that he's also clandestinely learning something relevant, Farsi or whatever – but there's no telling, so no one asks.

Recklessness is often ascribed as invincibility complex. Au contraire, it's staggeringly possible that it's the reverse – that faith in dying young is what inspires such casual discaution.

Cairo can subsist on cinnamon Certs and nicotine for a good long while.