Miss Braithwaite and Lotus had already gotten Colonel Napier out of his 
restraints, and he was pulling on his
trousers. "That we are not all dead implies that they are not making use of 
nanotechnological methods," he said professorially. "Hence this attack may 
safely be assumed to originate from a low-level neighborhood cell. The 
attackers probably believe the Fist doctrine that they are immune from all 
weapons. It never hurts, in these situations, to give them a reality check of 
some sort."