Wax took these solemnly. Then, from the locked cabinet by the wall, he
removed his strongbox—and from that two fully aluminum pistols, among
Ranette’s finest creations. Vindication II and the Steel Survivor.
The first was a powerful, large-caliber gun designed to hold hazekiller
rounds in two extra chambers. Those rounds were oversized, the bullets
designed with a secondary explosion for dealing with Hemalurgists. Ranette
had come up with them to forcibly eject a spike from a person’s body at close
range. The second gun was a sleek mid-caliber pistol with an extra-long
barrel for firing precision rounds. He generally loaded it with ordinary bullets
that could be Pushed