Just for an instant a chill ran down Michael’s spine, and if he’d been the kind to pay more attention to intuitions–endowed with Geraint’s Celtic genes, perhaps–he’d have stayed with the sensation. But he put it down to the vodka, which had made him just a little light-headed, and he missed it. People do sometimes. They miss things because what they know prevents them from seeing what else is there. Brains are designed to keep information out, and they’re good at that.