But there is another way to be unseen, and I learned it in a hospital bed under a false name, and it is the opposite thing entirely.

It is the invisibility of the person who has chosen, for now, not to be found — who has stepped out of view not because she is small but because she is working, not because she is hiding from a fight but because she is winning one on ground the enemy cannot see.

A sniper is invisible.

A foundation is invisible.

The most important structures in any building are the ones behind the walls.

There is nothing weak about being unseen when the unseenness is a position you have chosen and control; it is only weakness when the disappearing is done to you, or done by you to yourself out of fear.