I shivered. Gus was starting to sound like the cultists. I turned to look at him and noticed something odd through my thermographic goggles. Gus was kneeling on the floor, and had cast off his own goggles. His arms were outstretched, his hands together in prayer. Most of his body appeared normal—with glowing yellow hot spots at the groin and head, typically the warmest portions of the human body. But bright patches of white had appeared between the palms of his hands, as well as over his chest at a spot a little left of center—over the heart.