[Dharak]
Leaving the wounded Kylar to Ryzar's ministrations, the teacher strides
over to their prisoner. He looks the man in the eye; Dharak doesn't need
his empathic sense to tell him the fellow is terrified.

"Your companions are slain," he ventures in Konaic.  "And hope not for
help from the kandar or Quaan guards," he adds, pulling out the energy
pistol he took from one of the catmen. "Turn off that machine, brother,
and you can walk out of here with your life."

He complements his steely gaze and threatening words with a mindspoken
suggestion that the man comply with his demand.


> "Some of this kit is new and it hasn't come out of any Guild workshop
> I know of.  We could have built the controls themselves, but what they
> control is so far beyond me I am not sure I even know the right
> questions."