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. "The collagen treatments were, in reality, micromachines being injected into Raoul's bloodstream. Then Ohme put the Loti in this 'tanning bed' that was, in reality, a device designed to blow up the micromachines. If Raoul had been injected with a significant number of micromachines, he'd be dead. All of them would have burst at once, like bubbles in champagne, causing massive hemorrhaging. Death would be rapid and extremely painful. As it was, the small number of micromachines that did explode caused only minor damage--the bruising on the arms and the face."
"Xris," said Rowan excitedly, clutching his hand, "do you realize what this means?"
He looked at her. She flushed, removed her hand from his arm.
"I see where you're headed. But you two can't be serious! This is ... ludicrous!"
"Look at how it fits," Rowan argued. "Snaga Ohme invented this machine in order to kill Derek Sagan. But Fate intervenes. Snaga Ohme dies before he has a chance to use the machine. Then Derek Sagan dies. All the Blood Royal are dead."
"Except one," Quong added.
"One," Rowan repeated. "And while Ohme may be dead, his machine could be very much alive." "Which means--" Quong began.
"I know!" Raoul cried, ecstatic at having figured it all out. "I know! Bubbles in the blood!" He was pleasurably horrified. "They're going to carbonate the king!"
CHAPTER 29
"Holmes!" I cried
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