"A challenge?"
"Yes. You know, a duel."
"But I am unarmed."
"You cannot be unarmed," said Herkimer.
"I never fought a duel in all my life," said Sutton. "I don't intend to now."
"You are vulnerable."
"What do you mean, vulnerable? If I go unarmed…"
"But you cannot go unarmed. The code was changed just a year or two ago. No man younger than a hundred years can go unarmed."
"But if one does?"
"Why, then," said Herkimer, "anyone who wants to can pot you like a rabbit."