But if an organ cutter hit one of us, that triggered its real purpose.” “Which was?” Rosemary said, looking fearful. He looked out the window, but he did not see the stars. “To burrow. A cutter would dig through a person’s insides until it hit something vital. It wouldn’t stop until the victim was dead. So, say a soldier took a hit to a limb. With a normal bullet, that’d be a minor wound. But with a cutter, they’d be dead within . . . oh, half an hour. And half an hour may not sound like much time, but when you’ve got a little piece of metal ripping through you—” The memories reached out to
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