Summary

David and his telepathic network are stunned when one of their own, Anne, announced she was going to get married. She decided to marry Alan, the boy who had fought with David and outed Sophie. They implored Anne to see that she could never be happy with someone who could not project their thoughts, as it would be like living with someone who was partially blind and deaf. David thought that, “Other people seem so dim, so half-perceived, compared with those whom one knows through their thought-shapes; and I don't suppose 'normals', who can never share their thoughts, can understand how we are so much more a part of one another. What comprehension can they have of ' thinking-together' so that two minds are able to do what one could not?” (93).

The children were mainly worried that living so closely with a regular...