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  1. He could see them all, drawing on the anger and the pain that had been
  2. festering beneath the surface for those long months. They desperately
  3. needed someone to blame, someone who was here and real and in front of
  4. them, not a ghost like Hugh Darrow, his body crushed beneath thousands of
  5. tons of steel in the Arctic Ocean. They wanted a scapegoat, and somebody
  6. had decided it was going to be him.
  7.  
  8. Jensen lost focus for a moment as that thought echoed through his head,
  9. and it was enough for someone behind him in the crowd to shove him
  10. forward, spitting and jeering. He stumbled, and the tattooed man hurtled
  11. toward him, snarling. He had kitchen knives in both hands.
  12.  
  13. Reflexively, Jensen cocked back his cyberlimb and triggered the nerve
  14. impulse that would have deployed the blunt-tipped nanoblades concealed
  15. beneath the forearm – but there was nothing but a hollow click and he
  16. recalled too late that the augmentations had been disengaged. Instead, he
  17. went into a clumsy block that set the knives cutting across the
  18. polycarbonate shell of his arm.
  19.  
  20. Jensen turned the inelegant move into a counterattack, dropping low and
  21. throwing a punch into the tattooed man’s gut. He took it with a grunt but
  22. little else, the shear-thickening gel in the dermal armor absorbing most of
  23. the force of impact
  24.  
  25. [...]
  26.  
  27. The knives fell toward the exposed flesh of Jensen’s throat, but his
  28. attacker was inexpert with them and held the makeshift weapons too close
  29. together. Jensen’s free hand snapped up and grabbed the closest blade,
  30. hearing the metal crunch against the surface of his cyberarm’s synthetic
  31. palm. He pulled the tattooed man toward him, forcing him to overbalance.
  32.  
  33. - Deus Ex: Black Light, Chapter 2 pg. 29
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