One step at a time. Even President Ferraro was there, his hair looking scraggly where he had pulled out handfuls. On the modern League planets computers, mechanization, robots and an ever-vigilant police force left very little room for illegal operations. Steel, glass, wood and stone all mixed with complete indifference. With this my eyes closed and I fell asleep. There were no witnesses to the tragedy, but a number of monitor stations had picked up the discharge static of a large energy weapon being fired. As I started up the fifth flight I stopped, myfoot halfway upa step. I was through the door in a single bound.