still c behave curiously.

    S a pao pat somet of e invisible to ill. tail  stiffly. ill kne becly as t approac again, just an empty patcted the air once more.

    Again s less far and ime. After anotouccy overcame wariness.

    t stepped forward—and vanished.

    ill blinked. tood still, close to trunk of t tree, as a truck came around t its lig ,  ing. It  easy, because to fix on, but  about to look closely, .

    At least,  from some angles. It looked as if someone  a patc of t tchan a yard across.

    If you c it   ely invisible from be only from t t see it easily even from t ly t lay in front of it on tc by a streetlight.

    But ill kne test doubt t t patc world.

    possibly  at once, as strongly as  fire burned and kindness hing profoundly alien.

    And for t reason alone, it enticed o stoop and look furt  t  ate: ote bag to another.

    anding under a rorees. But not rees: tall palms, and trees in Oxford, in a ro ter of a broad boulevard, and at tly bt, all open, and all utterly silent and empty beneatars. t nig of flo smell of the sea.