Ouch. David has to wince. He has other people's memories of getting pistol whipped and he doesn't like that at all.

"Sort of psionic. It's completely tied to my mental focus and power," he said, drawing his fingers up to the shades and pulling at them with his fingers, and the thing shifted into a feather. "Good for weapons or defenses or just fashion. As for technopathy, it's like telepathy but for machines.'