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At least he wasn’t going to be alone, he thought. It was such a wonderfully archaic thing. The “Viva” sounds so much weightier than the “oral exam”. He had this vision of the examiners wearing heavy robes and solid expressions. He knew they wouldn’t of course. You can’t put an Agent in ermine. But he was human and he was going to have to “defend” (such an appropriate term) his work. But of course he hadn’t worked alone. They’d researched together, now they’d trained for the Viva together. He wondered what questions he’d have and which his Agent would face.