The big man yanked him to his feet mercilessly.

When the rodeo of pain subsided, he asked, "Is that your son, the boy?"

"Nah, that's Bandit. He's kind of a scavenger down in the Swamp. He picks through the reeds because people dump there. People dump all kinds of things there and he has an eye for the useful stuff."

The Swamp was a term for Section 7's 3rd Residential District; the thirty-two or so blocks between Market and Villanova. It was the poorest of the poor and, as such, one of the most violent regions in all of Sun City. A popular joke with the detectives of the SCPD was 'if you didn't find the body in the Swamp, at least you know it was moved.'

"A lot of the things you se...

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