"This is a competition I am alright with losing," he answers with a grin of his own, looking down at the towel he's sitting on, then at Sam out in the water. "I never liked dogs either and now I have four to look after." He misses his cat now and then, though he imagines the baker's daughter adopted him and looked after him when Mathias never came home.

It's rare that he thinks about Munich, but he does now, wondering what people said when he and Henrich never returned.