We all are looking for someone. That's the very essence of human nature, isn't it? It's an eternal quest.
True randomness is impossible for a human to achieve. There are always patterns.
Truces are temporary. Call it an alliance. That's permanent.
Zec was a word. And so is Chelovek. It's a transliteration of their word for human being. Zec Chelovek means prisoner-human being. Like Prisoner Man.
Except they had never had a fight. Not in the sense meant by people paid to fight or die. Pushing and shoving at the schoolyard gate or on the sidewalk outside the soda shop or late at night after a start-of-summer keg party was as far from fighting as two fat guys tossing lame spirals in the park were from the Superbowl.
The land is flat here and it's wintertime. There's nowhere to hide.
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