Cora wonders if it would have been the same if all the victims had blond hair, blue eyes, American names. If they hadn’t been bat eaters, disease carriers, responsible for the deaths of New Yorkers and the refrigerated body trucks in the streets. Would Officer Wang have gotten his backup then? Would those people be worth saving? Clearly, Delilah Zeng wasn’t worth the tax dollars. Not to anyone but Cora.
