Anxiety: A Plague, Years Of Wonder The cloud of anxiety makes other voices Slytherin; This is not English, I would think, 7, 8,9 years old, my blonde boy cap, freckles, fat cheeks, I can't understand you. I watched faces. Eyes. Hands. The sharp outlines of buildings and overpasses and freeway signs and fences and cars and sidewalks that slanted into gutters.