Here: a glimpse of the place called Burton, a castle that is almost a bastide: a high hill with a white stone town, walled even higher so that only one road enters via a northern gate and invaders must shoot uphill and into the sun. Amid the heritaged ruins of medieval war, she trains for a new one, a most intimate and speculative conflict of the mind. It is the SERE school of privacy, a secret agent’s playground.