John Childermass meets a stranger on his travels, and unwillingly surrenders the secret of his heart.

Five times he thought it, and one time he said so.

Martín is the one with the illness. Hanahaki- the disease of the unrequited lover, wherein flowers grow inside the lungs of the afflicted. Death by slow suffocation. Death of a broken heart.

"I had fooled myself for years, thinking that Martín simply loved me, when he was in love with me instead."

“Sergio told me the unbelievable. He wanted to do the heist- our heist, the gold heist in the Bank of Spain. His reasons- to save some boy, to honour Andrés- I barely noticed. I could hardly understand what he was saying. Andrés would have understood, of course, he would have known just from looking at me what I had done, been doing, what I made myself into."