Frieda glanced over top of my head and nodded. Immediately I felt a blinding pain. I arched my back reflexively as internal systems went into damage control. I turned my head to see Popeye standing there with a couple of wires in his hands, insulation stripped off at the ends. My gaze followed the wires back until they terminated in what were almost certainly some batteries wired up in series. Well, that explained it. Mannies wouldn’t be any more resistant to electricity than any bio. That was a real problem, and I added an item to my TODO to look into countermeasures.