"That's exactly what I'm talking about," answered Curufin, with a smile. "The train always does this, gives us clothes in our team colors to wear on missions. I feel like a Halloween pumpkin or a circus clown. Or the bright center of a paper target. Not that I always object. On those missions where we have to persuade families to evacuate, the children think I'm funny, and that makes it easier." But it didn't make it easier when there was shooting.