Fledgling

by Octavia E. Butler

“Iosif didn’t like guns, but Stefan did.” It hadn’t helped him survive.

“Have either of you ever heard of a community being destroyed the way my parents’

communities were? I mean, has it happened before anywhere else?”

But I don’t know. That’s the trouble; I don’t know anything”

They were strangers, and they had been there with her. I had not.