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asked bluntly.
    Cutter turned and glanced at Razor with a
penetrating stare. “I have to find someone.”
    “I assume it is a human female,” Razor said
with a raised eyebrow. “She will leave once it becomes clear the
area will be cleansed if the two factions refuse to cooperate and
lay down their arms. If we can get Parks to agree to a truce it
will be easier to contain the southern half of the city.”
    Cutter shook his head and turned to look at
the darkening city below him. A few scattered lights glimmered from
burning fires, but that was all. Everything else looked
abandoned.
    “I don’t think she will,” he replied
quietly. “These females… they aren’t like any others I’ve met
before. You saw what the female that rescued you did tonight. They
fight right alongside the males, especially if there are young
involved.”
    “If a female has young then she will be more
willing to leave,” Razor remarked, looking at the tablet in his
hands as he pulled up the new information Cutter sent to him about
the two men fighting for power. “She will want to protect her young
so she will leave when the order to abandon the city is given.”
    “She can’t,” Cutter bit out. “The kids
aren’t hers. They are children whose parents have died or abandoned
them. She will not leave if she thinks any remain behind.”
    Razor looked up at the hard tone in Cutter’s
voice. “How do you know this?”
    Cutter touched the cut on his cheekbone.
“One of the little devils she protects told me,” he admitted
ruefully.
    Razor’s eyes narrowed on the teeth marks
also gracing Cutter’s hand. “This female, she bit you?” He asked,
an amused glint lighting his eyes for a moment.
    Cutter chuckled as he turned his hand and
looked at the tiny set of marks. “Yeah, she bit me. I was surprised
how strong she was considering she was so small,” he admitted.
“Just so you know, I also found out that Parks protects them as
well. From what one of the boys she protects told me, Parks has
provided protection, food, and medicine for the northern half of
the city for the past six years. It was only in the last two years
that Allen made a move to take over the northern half of the
city.”
    “Why?” Razor murmured, looking at the data
on the tablet with a frown. “Why does Allen suddenly want the
northern section of the city? He could have seized it six years ago
by eliminating Parks when he had a chance.”
    Razor turned his gaze to look out over the
remains of the city. He could clearly see the border separating the
southern half of the city from the northern half. A crude barrier
of collapsed building rubble had been piled up to make a twenty
foot high wall that went in both directions as far as the eye could
see.
    It didn’t keep all the intruders out. That
was evident from the conflict he had observed earlier. Parks didn’t
have enough men to guard the entire length. Instead, small teams
patrolled the line. Kali’s group was one of dozens that moved
through the shadows of the city.
    For a moment, he became lost in thought as
he remembered back to that fateful night two weeks ago when Kali
had risked her life to save his. He resisted the urge to rub his
leg where she had pulled the shrapnel out of it. The wound was
already healed. It had been minor compared to what would have
happened if she hadn’t suddenly appeared. He would have been dead.
He had no illusions of what his fate would have been without her
assistance. For that he owed her a life debt, something that did
not sit well with him.
    “Razor,” Cutter said, breaking into his
thoughts. “Did you get the information that I sent to you?”
    Razor gave a brief nod before he pushed his
memories aside. He wanted to know what would drive two men who had
been friends at one time apart to the point they were trying to
kill each other. He also wanted to know how two men with such
different views could have been friends at one time. The more he
studied the situation, the