"You're out of your head! With the alien there on his riding beast at the same time?" "With luck, he won't see me until I'm back on the ground," said Shane. "Even if he does, I'm just another beast who was working up in the clock tower and left a sort of smudge or mark on it. But the chances are he won't even look up. Why should he?" "Why shouldn't he—when he sees you up there on the clockface?" "I tell you, he shouldn't see me. If he did, why should he be interested? His job is to ride around the Houses of Parliament, and, of course, to react to any crimes against Aalaag law that happen right under his nose." "Putting the Pilgrim mark anywhere is a crime." "He'll only see it's a Pilgrim symbol if (a) he notices it at all and if (b) he takes a very close look at it. It'll take a good pair of human eyes—and the Aalaag vision isn't any better than ours—to make out what the mark is from the ground unless you really look closely at it. He might decide to do that, but meanwhile I'll be walking away.
