" They’d beg. They’d point accusing fingers at one another. They’d rob. Eventually, they’d look at one another’s gaunt faces and realize the merchants were not thin. They’d see that the soldiers had been well fed. They’d see no sallow cheeks among the Elders. And they’d point their bony fingers away from one another and at those with full bellies, "

― Bobby Adair , The Last Survivors: the Complete Series (Last Survivors #1-6)