With a touch of a sensor tab, Tikki lowers the van’s rear window, then braces
her arms on the back of the bench seat and sights in on the southwest face of 
Tower Seven. The pistol’s flat-black finish absorbs light rather than reflects it.
The Ares optical night sight brings the distant rectangle of a fire door so 
close it seems only an arm’s length away. Tikki inclines the muzzle of the XP a
bit, bringing the security cam mounted just above the door clearly into view, 
seeming close enough to touch. The Lumex laser targeting module puts a sharply 
focused red dot on the upper surface of the downward-angled cam to indicate her 
exact point of aim.