“How did you, Krotovsky, end up from India in Africa? They’re not even near! There’s an entire ocean between them,” the king fumed. “India isn’t some bump in a swamp. How could you miss?”
I had to slightly move the phone away from my ear to protect my eardrums.
“Your Majesty, Columbus also missed once. Nobody holds that against him.”
“And I hold it against him, Krotovsky. I hold it against him! Better if he’d never opened this—” The king softened. “All right. At first I wanted to reward you with an order, but in the end I decided to limit it to a strict reprimand…”