"I designed it to be fairly intuitive." Excuse him, he may huff, just a little bit. Alex could walk, move his hands--simple biofeedback. Well, it seemed simply. In reality it was millions of dollars and decades worth of research. "Fifty caliber weaponry is all I remember. And it it should respond when you're threatened." And he thought--just for a minute, about the transponder Mattox had used--it was still there, just as it had been in China.

No one here could use it, he thought, and it was probably more trouble t explain to Alex than it was worth.