"“How will we do all these things? What is the plan?” “The plan?” Mari hesitated. “We don’t really have a plan. We’ll have to improvise.” “Improvise?” “That means making things up as you go along,” Mari explained. “But you told me earlier today that we need to have a plan before we begin anything complicated,” Alain objected. “Yes, I did, but— Fine. Our plan is to improvise.”"