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. The negative wave device was located fight smack in the center of an enormous forty-story luxury hotel that was standing right smack on the highway leading up to the temple. The hotel, the area around the hotel, the highway leading to and from the hotel were jammed with people.
"Third-floor balcony," Harry said.
A blast from the lascannon would blow up the device ...
The front of the hotel ...
And about five or six hundred men, women, and children, who would never know what hit them.
"Tycho, get down here!" Xris said, frustrated. "Harry, goddam it, I need a closer look!"
Harry was already ordering the computer to zoom in on the coordinates.
"Holy shit!" he said reverently and in disbelief. He turned around, his eyes wide. "Xris, that can't be right! That's ... that's the GNN nightly news!"
Yet the numbers Rowan had brought up were flashing complacently beneath the picture, assuring him that this was, indeed, the location of the negative wave device. A mobile unit of Galactic Network News.
"Doc, get over here. There's all sorts of equipment stuck out there on that third-floor balcony. You have any idea which of those things might be the device7 If any?"
Quong took a close look. Harry obligingly shifted camera angles, bringing each machine into close proximity. Xris, conscious of a wave of gardenia perfume roiling over him, sensed the presence of Raoul loitering nearby
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