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a Circle Four member?"
Gweshira nodded at the question, clearly pleased with him. "First reason:
because you're a close enough blood relative to one member of Circle Four so
that Riveroma will know that if he tries anything, he'll be triggering a blood
feud. That makes you safer. Not that he'd always object to a blood feud, mind
you, but as I've said before, he's a complete professional, and he won't stand
for an unnecessary one. Second reason: because if Riveroma decides he wants to
play rough or if he just isn't feeling as professional as he should, he can't
get any information about Circle Four out of you, since you don't know it."
"But he might try."
"Well, certainly. It's always possible that we've miscalculated. Perhaps he's
not as afraid of Sib as he ought to be, or perhaps Triangle One will have
reasons to accept the risk of outright feud or war. But even if that happens,
try not to worry too much. Torture isn't such a big thing in our modern age;
generally they do just enough of it to force you to think about any secrets
you're keeping, while they have you under
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John Barnes - The Duke of Uranium deep brain scan, so that they know whether
to do a destructive extraction on your brain. Once they confirm that there's
nothing in there, you're perfectly safe."
"And I've been saying there's nothing in that brain for a long time," Sib
added.
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"Shut up, you silly old gwont, Jak's entitled to be worried. Anyway, even if
that happens (and it's very unlikely) they might do some bad temporary damage,
but it won't be anything worse than what you've just been through."
"Comforting."
"Comparatively, it . Anyway, third reason: if you should, by any chance,
happen to find you like the is work or if we discover you're good at it, which
probably won't happen because this is a milk run then we may recruit you into
Circle Four.
"Now, we'll be putting a sliver into some vital organ of yours. To retrieve
and decode that sliver, Riveroma needs a string of information that will be
found coded onto a specific antibody which he will find in your bloodstream.
You'll be carrying directions that will tell him why the information he's
being led to is valuable, and how to isolate the antibody that will let him
retrieve the sliver."
"How did the antibody get there?" Jak asked.
Sib grinned, pulled out a tiny spray bottle, and spritzed Jak in the face.
"It'll be there in about three days.
Meanwhile, sorry about the sniffles you're going to have."
"So what's in the sliver?"
"A set of locations mostly safety-deposit boxes, but a couple of vacuum
bottles buried here and there, and also some physical locations of
high-security computer memory. If Bex Riveroma gets to all those locations
before authorities do, he'll obtain the originals, plus all the existing
copies, of all the evidence about five different subjects that could each earn
him a walk into vacuum or a sleeper bunk in a running reactor."
"What good does knowing the physical location of a high-security memory do
you? If it's high security, it's not accessible on the net "
"But if it's a physical location you can set off an atom bomb there," Sib
said. "A lot of spies, meres, and ops are subtle people, so they tend to value
subtlety, but it can be overvalued. Sometimes unsubtle is just what you need,
and Riveroma's a pro. Give him those locations and he'll figure out what to
do, which is why he'll trade anything in the universe to get those locations.
Clear enough?"
"Guess so."
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"Now, do you want the sliver in your heart, your liver, your lungs& ?"
"Why does it have to be in a vital organ?"
Gweshira explained, "If we put it in your hand or your toe or something, they
can just cut that part off, one quick chop when you don't expect it, and
search the part at leisure, leaving you with all the hassle of spending a
month regenerating. With the sliver in a vital organ, with a limited number of
good retrieval paths, they're going to have to follow directions, or else kill
you. And Sibroillo Jinnaka is a name that frightens them they wouldn't kill
his nephew for any reason that wasn't really, really important."
"What if they do think of something important?" Gweshira's shrug was not
reassuring, nor was Uncle
Sib's, and that must have shown on Jak's face. "Cheer up," Uncle Sib said.
"Fermi's a great town and chances are you'll spend more time on nightlife than
on intrigue. And do you know how many kids never get to travel at all?"
Chapter 4
Why Don't We Thrash It Out?
Dujuv did nothing but babble about how exciting and fun it was to be in
slamball training camp, and after ten minutes of that Jak was bored but didn't
want to express it. So he begged off quickly, touched the palm of his left
hand with his right so that his purse would hang up the call, and turned back
to talk to
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Uncle Sib. "Well, I guess I'm ready to go."
"Your friend seems a bit preoccupied."
Jak shrugged, not wanting to seem childish about it. "He's getting on with his
life and career. I guess I
envy him that. And I wish he wasn't quite so cheerful when I'm about to go do
something really hard."
"Well, friends surprise you. They always do. That's one reason for having
them." Sib watched him intently for a moment, but whatever he was looking for
apparently wasn't there. "And, you know, you are getting on with your life.
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