Chapter 15: Vee NatureIt became a routine that, whenever a Vee arrived at the apartment, Garner’s first question to him was whether there was any evidence that their location had been discovered by the enemy. The answer—so far, thankfully, was negative.
Alonzo was still recovering, and he needed plenty of rest, apparently, so Garner was often left to interact with the Vees alone. At first, he didn’t know how to make conversation with them, so he decided just to be open to them. He noticed they continued to be deferential to him, to a point that it made him uneasy; it brought up his old aversion to being included—with its associated being “slotted”—assigned a role.
But he resolved to endure this, and to avoid “slotting” them in turn, by ignoring any and all oddities, and to see the Vees b
