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A large cluster of cameras was filming her from a distance; her status as a legal suicide actually gave her a larger zone of protection than even Figg's attorney system could manage.

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Sade evidenced something of a distaste for Figg's spider, particularly when she ran so nimbly out of Figg's hairdo, down his neck and arm to eat from the tray of live insects he had ordered for her.

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She was trembling and refused to come closer, watching Penelope creep on delicate legs down Figg's chest.

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Figg's goal was to appear unperturbed by his surroundings and to continue to move more deeply into the rooms, toward a space where a large crowd was being herded with an air of expectancy, down a star carpet for celebrities, which Figg naturally followed along.

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Along the far wall of glass overlooking the ocean paced Sade himself, on the broad dais where the most intimate birthday guests had gathered, awaiting Figg's arrival.

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Sade's face filled the cameras at several points, watching a screen on which Figg's progress through the courtyard was being followed.

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Penelope, sated with bug for the moment, pricked her legs into Figg's forearm and clung there.

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The spider's body spanned about the size of Figg's hand, partly organic and partly mechanical, effectively immortal, since none of its cellular or regulatory functions were particularly difficult to duplicate.

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His suit was throbbing with energy, pulsing with a deep, deep violet wave, and the Herman adjusted the variance on the randomizer; sometimes the pattern would be regular and sometimes it would not, the best choice for a personal special effect of this type, in Figg's opinion.

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Figg's family had built Marmigon and maintained controlling interest in its operation even centuries later; by being seen as Figg's intimate friend, Sade meant to re-establish his power base, and even to extend it.

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