[The faraway look they'd had snaps away from them; they're focused on Tim again, and their face goes dark and still. They squeeze one of their elbows and say tonelessly:]
Yes. Kill or be killed.
...
That's what some people used to say to me.
[But they never really believed that. Not the first time, anyway. Maybe not even the other times. Maybe not even now. It was never kill or be killed; not so much as it was SAVE or be killed.]
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Yes. Kill or be killed.
...
That's what some people used to say to me.
[But they never really believed that. Not the first time, anyway. Maybe not even the other times. Maybe not even now. It was never kill or be killed; not so much as it was SAVE or be killed.]
[They hate it either way.]