Picking it up, he could see it was a grown knife—probably a keratin-silica hybrid from some vat in Thailand or Vietnam. Highly illegal in Singapore. Nonmetallic and thus difficult to detect on scanners. He squeezed the handle where it felt soft, and the blade retracted like a cat’s claw into the handle. He squeezed it again, and the blade reappeared. It felt organic, like some hunter’s souvenir from a big game hunt.
