How many people had joined the Merchants after everything went to hell?  One in two hundred of the people who’d declined to evacuate the city?  One in a hundred?  One in fifty?  How many of these people had been ordinary citizens until civilization broke down?

And how many of them were like this all along, just below the surface?

Had I passed any of these people on the street while going about my day?

Entirely possible. Hell, maybe you’d just think they were “slightly awkward people with poor sense of boundaries”.

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