"The star's my only poke," Tommy says with a smile. "Everything else was done very neatly."

He doesn't ask what the Second Army was, because he supposes it's rather obvious. The thought of it, an army made up of witches and all that sort of thing, doesn't put him off entirely. There were certainly times when they thought it of the Germans, in one way or another. If Nina's fellows were half as powerful as her, they'd be formidable to go up against.