For those Troops who were aware of each other, the experience ranged, after the initial shock and anger wore off, from joyous acceptance, to nitpicking at each other’s shortcomings, to rage and disgust. Facing some Troop members through thought transference or the more potent “evidencing,” the woman was aware at times of a kind of wonderment; she almost wanted to count their fingers and toes the way a mother might when presented with her new-born child.
