“Longshot will be mad if we stir the Freaks up and draw them back here.” “Then we make sure they don’t spot us,” Stalker said. Fade added, “And if they do, they don’t reach the outpost alive.” I asked myself, What would you do if you sneaked into a camp of sleeping Freaks? Would you slit all their throats? The answer that emerged made me wonder if I were more of a monster than the creature that stole our fire. That doesn’t necessarily establish that they’re capable of mercy. Maybe it was just cunning enough to know that stealth was its only chance to survive the theft. For obvious reasons, it
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