He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.

You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.

This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.

If a crowd can flinch, they flinch. More than a thousand men flinch under the fist of just one. I don't see what the women do.

Things change, but they stay the same.

And the pain is too much it's too much it's too much and my hands are on my head and I'm rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that's inside me. And i fall back into it.

Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor?" She smiles. "He doesn't stand a chance.