It was amazing to Knox that they all knew, instinctively, how to build implements of pain. It was something even shadows knew how to do at a young ag… - Hugh Howey

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It was amazing to Knox that they all knew, instinctively, how to build implements of pain. It was something even shadows knew how to do at a young age, knowledge somehow dredged up from the brutal depths of their imagination, this ability to deal harm to one another.

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