He strode through the edge of the crowd, deftly avoiding everyone, the nanoblade held playfully in his fingertips. A few might have sensed something, but at most they considered it the wind at their neck. He never would have thought they could make a machine powerful enough to push through so many security systems, to reweave that many views of reality, including the security cameras all around the tower. Yet, he strolled up the path, stepping around the guard.
He didn’t know what the man had done, or was going to do. It wasn’t his business to ask. The politician stood at a short podium in his gray suit, shouting at the crowd with one fist raised, pumping at the sky. The assassin drew up to him. It was a queer feeling standing in front a crowd without being seen. He turned to the crowd, hundreds of faces staring at the politician next to him. Not knowing death so near.
The assassin lifted his arm up slowly, measuring the distance, then pushed his own mod into the politician’s system. The crowd couldn’t see what he had seen, but they saw his reaction. One moment, the politician was shouting, the next he gasped, holding his arms out in front of him, as if he had seen a ghost, then his head fell off.
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Also by Thomas K. Carpenter
THE DIGITAL SEA TRILOGY
The Digital Sea
The Godhead Machine
Neochrome Aurora
GAMERS TRILOGY
GAMERS
FRAGS
CODERS
ALEXANDRIAN SAGA
Fires of Alexandria
Heirs of Alexandria
Legacy of Alexandria
Warmachines of Alexandria
Empire of Alexandria
Goddess of Alexandria
HERON OF ALEXANDRIA SHORT STORIES
The Price of Numbers
The Weight of Gold
The Blood of the Gods
The Virtues of Madness
The Curse of the Gorgon
MIRROR SHARDS ANTHOLOGY
Mirror Shards: Volume One
Mirror Shards: Volume Two
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Thomas K. Carpenter resides near St. Louis with his wife Rachel and their two children. When he’s not busy writing his next book, he’s playing soccer in the yard with his kids or getting beat by his wife at cards. He keeps a regular blog at http://www.thomaskcarpenter.com and can be found on twitter under @thomaskcarpente
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