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Lethal Weapons
As the afternoon wore on, fewer and fewer people could be found on the streets of Center
Sect. Other than small groups of workers scurrying to and from wiretrains and air-cabs, they
saw very few citizens at ease anywhere. Protectors traveled in pairs. It was Jak who pointed
out that they weren't carrying stunsticks.
"Those are perseps," he said. "Highly lethal weapons, specially coded to the user, so that
they are useless without their owner's brain pattern to activate them. They were once
common on Kephalon."
Samante seemed shocked. "But weapons aren't allowed on Palace. It's a capital crime for
anyone to have weapons that can kill."
Vida looked at her friend with an amused expression. "Funny, Samante, but Riva's Leps
don't seem to have heard of that law."
"You don't understand, Vida. After the Schism Wars, it was the one thing everyone agreed
on. No matter how bad things got, no—"
Suddenly, there was an enormous boom that sounded like thunder. The powerboom of a
saccule.
"Greenie!"
Vida whipped around and saw Greenie fling its small body at a trio of Leps. One of the Leps
swatted the saccule aside and fired its weapon, a flash of light and no sound. Jak's hands
moved so swiftly that they were a blur. Edged weapons sprouted from the throats and eyes of
two of the Leps. The third one, however, managed to fire his weapon before he died. Vida felt
the impact of the weapon's charge. It slammed her off her feet and against a wall so hard she
blacked out. ...
 By Catharine Kerr and
Mark Kreighbaum
Palace: A Novel of the Pinch
 Mark Kreighbaum
 THE EYES OF GOD
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