They Twinkled Like Jewels by Philip Jose Farmer, Science, Fantasy 12+

📙 The predawn darkness had hidden his panting flight from the transie jungle, his dodging across backyards while whistles shrilled and voices shouted, and his crawling on hands and knees down an alley into the high grass and bushes which fringed a hidden garden.Crane didn't get the nice man's name--until it was far too late to do anything at all about it.