Limelight

> > The redhead- Tia- approached me, holding some kind of device. It was flat and round, the size of a plate, but had a screen on one side. She pointed it at me. “No reading”

> > “Blood test,” Prof said, face hard.

> > Tia nodded. “Don’t force us to hold you down, she said to me, removing a strap from the side of the device; it was connected to the disc by cords. “This will prick you, but it won’t do you any harm.”

> > “What is it?” I demanded.

> > “A dowser.”

> > A dowser… a device that tested if one was an Epic or not. “I … thought those were myths.”

> Chapter 6, Steelheart, page 51