Sunday, June 1, 1941
At the Garage
Raymond, Norris and Francis were at the abandoned garage with the butcher van, the artillery shells, and the shrapnel. Francis had found Raymond some laborer’s coveralls and Raymond worked on improving his disguise. He planned to steal some papers from a homeless person
Raymond instructed Francis to make contact with N for further instructions. He informed N that Jakub’s and Basil’s covers were blown and that the authorities had circulated posters and solicited tips from the civilian population. He also mentioned that the plan to infiltrate the Olliver factory was still possible, but they needed instructions.
Raymond considered that the garage would be their base of operations for the near future and decided to improve it when the opportunity arose.
At the Rail Yard
In the mean, Raymond sought out a homeless person at the railyard to steal his his clothes and papers. The rail yard was still largely demolished. The workers had primarily been clearing the east-west rails.
He found a suitable target and offered 20 francs to exchange some things. The man led him to an abandoned building where they could have some privacy. Once inside the building, a man appeared from behind some debris and threatened them. Raymond counter-threatened and the man backed away in the direction from which he had come.
While this was happening, Francis was wandering about the ruins and felt that something was not right. He pursued the feeling, which led him around to the back of the building that Raymond and his mark were using. Sneaking around to the rear of the building, he spied a strange, winged creature crawling out of a crack in the floor. He had seen one before, which had started him on his path to N. Now it was his turn.
Raymond immediately shot at the byakhee and seemed to wound it significantly. There was a man standing outside the building, but he failed to notice Francis until the shot went off. Another man emerged from the building. The byakhee attacked Francis and clawed his leg.
At that point, Raymond, who had not yet disrobed, advanced behind the rubble to spy the two men. He immediately closed and knocked one out. The other man was captivated by the byakhee. Francis then shot again, and the byakhee exploded and then its entrails evaporated, leaving no trace. Raymond the drew his gun and killed the man who had been watching the fight.
Raymond then instructed Francis to clean up the scene and returned to make his exchange. The mark, who had already disrobed significantly, had not moved. They exchanged clothes and papers, and Raymond gave him 300 francs, the name of the farmer in Bruz who had vouched for their cover story at the ruins, and let him go with instructions to leave Rennes.
Raymond made a mental note of the man’s appearance to mimic better later. He looked at the papers. His new identity was Roland Therrien, a bank clerk from Plaisir, a village west of Paris.
They then cleaned up the bodies. Both had meat cleavers. They dug out the bullet from the one, slit their throats, and dumped the bodies in the hole the byakhee had come out of. Having completed this, and hearing the sound of sirens in the distance, they returned to the garage, successfully evading the arriving German soldiers and gendarmes.