Nick looked impressed. “Kar’s not an easy man to lie to. He’s so hooked into pelekotan that lying’s a tricky business; I once saw him yank out a guy’s tongue—”

Mace gave him a sidelong look. “Who lied? I told him that he and Depa would be able to find me at the steamcrawler track this afternoon. The lie is in what he assumed I meant, not in what I said.”


- Shatterpoint, Chapter 10