And more than that. Obviously, Barnard—with Yamatetsu's resources behind him—had set up the magical provisions that Scott the hit-ork had needed to do the job. The physical illusion spell or whatever the frag it was, that had let him sneak a fragging Remington Roomsweeper through a tight search. The shattershield spell that he must have used to slam down the magical barrier that an important target like an oyabun would have as a matter of course. A lot of that drek, you could pour the mana into a spell focus or a fetish of some kind, something, say, like the pot-bellied little guy on Scotty's lapel. Scott himself would have to be a mage or a shaman—probably the latter, I figured, following in his mother's footsteps—to trigger it (that's the way I understood it, at least), but he wouldn't have to have much juice of his own.