"His cousin came through. I went to the Deportista Virtual and asked for Hector’s cousin Eriqueta. She put me in touch with a scalper named Fede. He lived up to his nickname, too. Ugliest fragger I ever saw. His face was a solid mass of scar tissue, as if it had been burned. Anyway, he scored me the tickets to the fifth game in the ollamaliztli finals. Fede was going to charge me five hundred thousand pesos apiece for them, but I bartered him down to half that. It meant giving up my lucky Seattle Timber Wolves flag, but it’s worth it if it gets us a shot at Vargas."