I hesitated. If I said no, he might consider me dumb and might not elaborate. “We have . . . something like this.” I was trying to wrack my brain over what example I would cite if he asked. Hell, localised gravity? Of course, the gravity well I had seen in the large army ship. But that was Asto military and highly secret— No, Ezhya had shown it to me for a reason. That reason was obviously that he wanted me to bluff. He might have known that the ship had something like this. It would show up in their gravity field scans. I stepped off the platform, holding my breath as if jumping off a dive board into the water. As soon as my feet had left the surface of the platform, all semblance of gravity disappeared. Whoa. I almost went toppling, except where there was no gravity, there wasn’t an

