"Let's see what you've got," Venza demanded.
We handed the girls the various devices we had taken from Wyk. Most of them were the size of my fist: globular metallic projectors like hand bombs; ray cylinders; a device with multiple barrels the size of one's finger, set in a small circumference of a circular grid of wires.
Anita said, "I saw Molo with one of these. He killed an unwilling worker on the ship."
"I'll take a look around," Snap said anxiously. "Suppose we're being followed? Give me that weapon."
There was vegetation partly over us, so that the sky was half obscured. Snap took the weapon, and like a monkey swaying precariously, he ran and leaped among the upper branches, crashing his way until he could see back toward the horizon beyond which lay the city of Wor.
We heard his voice. "All clear. Nothing in sight. You coming up? Better get started."
I put the weapons in my pocket. Snap had one now in the branches over us. I was examining an electronic bolt, when suddenly there came Snap's call. "Gregg! Look out!"
We heard the hiss and saw the flash of his bolt.
Anita swung at me. "Gregg, see there!"
I followed her gesture, and then I knew why this forest was shunned by humans!