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