[Narvin gives a small but visible shudder at the mention of spiders getting it. He'd rather come face to face with terrorist mad bombers than with spiders.]
It might have been a...[He thinks for a moment to find the proper English idiom.]...shot across the bow. Something that wasn't intended to do much damage, but to put us on edge, show us that they're out there and have successfully smuggled in weapons that could do considerable damage. Just a threat alone can sometimes create disruption, breed mistrust. [He thinks of Gryben, and the threat of a timeonic fusion device that turned out to be nothing but empty circuits once history was put back into place.]
Do you think the Blood Pack might be involved? As the supplier, if nothing else.
[Once Kay stops scanning, Narvin walks a few steps closer. He has to look up at Kay now that Kay's fully upright.]
Oh, and another thing, can your scanner pick up residual psychic displacement?
I will stop editing eventually, I swear!
It might have been a...[He thinks for a moment to find the proper English idiom.]...shot across the bow. Something that wasn't intended to do much damage, but to put us on edge, show us that they're out there and have successfully smuggled in weapons that could do considerable damage. Just a threat alone can sometimes create disruption, breed mistrust. [He thinks of Gryben, and the threat of a timeonic fusion device that turned out to be nothing but empty circuits once history was put back into place.]
Do you think the Blood Pack might be involved? As the supplier, if nothing else.
[Once Kay stops scanning, Narvin walks a few steps closer. He has to look up at Kay now that Kay's fully upright.]
Oh, and another thing, can your scanner pick up residual psychic displacement?