the kinds of people who wormed their way into the cracks in people’s psyches, then poked their little needles in to create punctures. Their modus operandi was generally either to suddenly withdraw their support when it was most needed, or else to rely on people’s desire for information they happened to possess. Either way, sometimes they themselves didn’t have any awareness of what it was they were doing, so when they made their initial approach, you wouldn’t have the faintest suspicion of their ill intentions.
