She was a good egg, that one. You can see why I had taken to lying down on her desk. “Okay. So we’ll keep you anonymous,” she said. “We just have to think of how.” “What if the first people I befriend are totally unknown to one another and very far removed from me?” I asked. “Even if you traced it back to the beginning of the network, you wouldn’t ever pinpoint me as the center. It’ll be more like drawing a spiralizer spinning around me. It’ll be as if I’m not even there.”

