“What about recruiting a Sensitive from among the Norms?” he asked Venn.
The question brought no immediate response.
“To trust a Norm—” Venn began dubiously, and shook his head. “But, in any case, if you can train to appear as a simple Norm, that will aid you both in exploration and the final action.”
That, Garner thought, would take some practice. And the prospect of the “action” already scared him.
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And so, they practiced this too. The Vees themselves became tuned into each other specifically, and practiced suppressing their own natural enhanced perceptual abilities, which Garner evaluated when he probed them. Practicing at increasing distance, Garner discovered that, beyond about a hundred yards, when the Vees were doing their best to be undetectable, even a direct probe on
