He did not see much more death, but he smelled it everywhere in the hot 
wet air. He thought that he might be seeing a network of nanotech defense 
barriers until he realized that it was a natural phenomenon: Each waterway 
supported a linear black nimbus of fat, drowsy flies. From this he knew that if 
he tugged a bit on this or that rein and guided Kidnapper to the bank of the 
canal, he would find it filled with ballooning corpses.