Hackworth nearly caught him. Without the power assist it would have been 
no contest, as Hackworth exercised daily in his club while this boy had the 
pudgy, pasty look typical of thetes. But the boy had a considerable head start. 
By the time they reached the first ramp leading down into the Leased 
Territories, Hackworth was only ten or twenty meters away, just close enough 
that he could not resist following the boy down the ramp. An overhead sign 
read: ENCHANTMENT.