CHAPTER 9
A person can only feel alone if he’s never gotten to know himself.
—Anthropos, The Sane Mind
It took almost two hours after that for them to get ready. Stuffing their uniforms with insulation proved to be a trickier process than they’d thought, and required more material than Dev’s original estimate. The uniforms normally fit very loosely to allow their wearers flexibility, and all that room had to be accounted for. When they were finished, they all looked quite plump and rounded.
I feel like an overstuffed scarecrow, Dev thought. The insulation had another disadvantage in that it weighed them down still further and hampered their freedom of movement. Bending their legs and arms was more difficult, and their speed would be affected. But invisibility, Dev decided, would be a b
