Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)

by Lindsay Ellis

Then the invisibility cloak melted away, and there was Ampersand on the floor, wedged between the two beds like an angry cat that had backed itself into a corner. Cora stared, considering the wisdom of asking why he was doing this thing before deciding that he had his alien reasons and letting it lie.

“They represent your own government,” he said. “Why are you afraid of your own government?”