Clothed in riches and power it would be impossible for me to keep in touch with ordinary people throughout the world. The Books of Zorn declare that work ennobles a man. I can hear you Number Four. Basic flux through the high atmosphere. Change to manual, hold.
Winter is the worst, waiting like ghosts in the mist and rain with the others.
That's when it's hardest not to throw off this disguise. But I know it's only another manifestation of pride. When I was at my lowest, alone in my room concentrating my mental powers, cleaning out the thought channels, they let me witness an Ascension Ceremony. It happened in the back garden of our semi-detached. I was the first terestrial to witness the ascension of a female Alpha Centura.