"Their beams could not cut the dureum linkages; they slid harmlessly past-not through 'the wraith-like, figmental invaders at whom they were aimed."
"And Virgilia Samms, working now for something far more urgent and vastly more important than a figmental Galactic Patrol, hoped desperately that this Herkimer was not a muscle-reader too; for she knew that she was revealing her secrets even more completely than was he."