A sharp-pointed awl for marking wood or metal to be cut.
1I carefully set the 'scriber down on the white stone and look around.
2I slipped my 'scriber from my vest pocket.
3I picked up the slate and 'scriber and paced back and forth in my Schrödinger cell.
4In each of the stalls, a cardinal jotted the name on a 'scriber pad provided by the Scrutineers.
5Floating on light, freecasting into the universe with my stylus and 'scriber tucked under my arm, I still had not decided.
6Give me your stylus 'scriber there if you want me to spell it out in big block letters for you, boy.
7I clutch my 'scriber to me like a shield, like some talisman, like a Bible, and walk the once-proud boulevard with shaky legs.
8Comlogs and 'scribers filled with data and scribbled notes.
9For a moment the wardroom was littered with floating 'scribers, magazines, pulse knives, impact armor, and stripped-down energy lances.
10The Memo-Scriber's counter, set to 000 when I went to bed, was now at 012.
11"Report?" I said, opening my hands and setting the 'scriber on a table tray.
12At the end of the Conclave, the 'scribers would be scrambled, their files deleted so that no record of the voting would remain.
13I was standing there in the doorway with the Memo-Scriber under my arm, looking at the empty desk and sweating like a pig.
14"See your 'scriber anywhere?"