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The Omega Cage by Steve
Perry and Michael Reaves

Part One
The vilest deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison air; It is only what is
good in man that wastes and withers there; Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate
and the Warder is despair.

тАФOscar Wilde,
"The Ballad of Reading Gaol"

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cageтАж

тАФRichard Lovelace,
Lucasta. To Althea: From Prison

Chapter One
The skimmer hit a hard downdraft and fell several hundred meters almost

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instantly. Dain Maro felt the free-fall flutter in his belly as the little ship
dropped. There was no danger; they were still far above the ground, but the
suddenness of it nearly lifted him from his form-seat.

The manacles stopped him.

He was chained to the seat, wrists and ankles, and it would have taken a lot more
than a little air turbulence to break him free. He looked at the gyves. They could
have used ataractic drugs or pressor fields to hold him, but Omega was a frontier
world, and the Confed didn't waste its technology on criminals. The manacles
were molecular-stacked graphites, twice as hard as polycarb durosteel, and the
process for making them was a hundred years old. Ancient, maybe, but certainly
effective enough.