I told Stone once we’d crossed the chilly covered walkway back to the main spine of the Guild’s living quarters. “The Sinclair Building has better shielding throughout because of anyonide fields in the living quarters stacked together,” Stone said. “The fields are built into the building, so it’s cheaper and easier to extend that system into its basements than to build a completely different system at twice the energy cost. Efficiency of time is not the only consideration.” “And the shielding takes a considerable amount of power, I take it?” I was still thinking about the too-visible, severe burns on Meyers’s body. “How much power?” “I have no idea. Orders of magnitude more than the household electrical system. The Guild has to contract with the city for special power grants. It adds up. That’s why most of the shielding is in this building. Easier to circulate the power than separate it.”
