It was an alluring description, and for all that Zanru wasn't a businesswoman she wasn't an idiot, either. Trustworthy deals weren't made on the basis of someone's word and a description. "Bring it back and let me see it, and prove to me that it works, and then I'll hear you out," she said bluntly. "It'll stay in your hands until then."

It wouldn't take much for him, if he could fly, to go and get the gun from wherever he'd put it.