[Agent Washington can field strip a rifle faster than anyone he knows. He doesn’t know the numbers when he’s in a firefight, because adrenaline will shave off precious seconds when it launches your muscles into taut, precise action, but a PFC timed him once for a bet and he clocked in under twenty-five seconds.]

[He moves slowly, now. Speed indicates danger or urgency and he’s out to set a tone that’s casual. Picking his weapon apart. Studying it closely, even if he doesn’t particularly need to.]

Like someone who should be dead showing up alive.

...you know that “anomalous” implies it should be uncommon, right?