Watching the tape now, just six months later, I can’t believe how stupid we all were. And I don’t mean “we” strictly in the sense of the people present; I mean “we” as a collective culture. I guess that’s what a few centuries of peace and affluence will do to a society. I got more than I was asking for. But we were all much too invested now. At that point I celebrated the camera I’d mounted on my spectacles, and the fact that I was half a head taller than almost everyone else in the crowd. I had a great view of her as she walked, looking rather appealing in her tight, black jumpsuit.