Up in the corner, the small diagram of the tagging aerostat zoomed in to a 
high magnification, revealing some of the device's internal complications, so 
that it began to look less like a hornet and more like a cutaway view of a 
starship. Mounted in the nose was a device that spat out tiny darts drawn from 
an interior magazine. At first these were almost invisibly tiny, but as
the view continued to zoom, the hull of the tagging aerostat grew until it 
resembled the gentle curve of a planet's horizon, and the darts became more 
clearly visible. They were hexagonal in cross-section, like pencil stubs. When 
they were shot out of the tag stat's nose, they sprouted cruel barbs at the 
nose and a simple empennage at the tail.