Or like a piece of shoelace plastic. Aglet nods, encouraged by the Bean's reasonableness. "I'm, um, a Borrower."

And his face falls as he realizes that this is the second -- no, third -- Bean he's told about the existence of Borrowers. Jennifer and Topher have already told others, no doubt, but he sort of trusts Romac (mostly because they haven't done anything so far). "You're not supposed to know that," he mumbles.