Little Sister
“Sveta! These are not people, right? These are some weird . . . whatever you call them . . . shape-shifters? Kosmops? Whatever?”
She shook her head. They were not the Enemy. They were people.
In the flashes of searchlights, she saw them with perfect clarity: their skinny legs, pathetic paunches, and sagging breasts. They lay exposed and defenseless, every pretense of civilized living having been stripped away from him. They had no need of modesty anymore.
There were quite a lot of children, tucked in among the adult bodies. One of them was clutching a doll. She stared at it because there was no other man-made object in the pit, but then realized it was not a doll but a baby.
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