The day after the chase, Alex was up with the dawn, his lungs still clear, his eyes bright, with no sign of sore throat or fever. He felt better than he’d felt in at least a year. Meanwhile, the road-burned Troupers lay around in their smelly bags and their stick-and-paper cones, in the grip of prolonged siestas. The after-chase day was a busy day for the support crews, but they were busy with information , a fourteen-hour-day of annotating, editing, collating, cutting, and copying. The Troupe’s road pursuers were physically worn-out, and the rest of them were crouching over their keyboards. Nobody paid Alex much mind.