It was theatrics, Galen had to admit, but then, all of life was but a stage...
He made a quick gesture with one hand, and the canvas flipped back off the basket and burner. He caught up the burner mechanism in an energy field, then using his implants in a way he hadn't since he arrived in 1964, levitated the burner and drew it toward himself through the air.
"I'll need a little extra metal for this job," he told Scoresby. "Are there any castoffs - I believe it is called a scrap pile - with metal parts around here somewhere? Things that won't be missed?"