Without hesitation, he dusted both sides with pepper and salt, then tossed it onto a metal slab left to heat over the fire. It sizzled the moment it touched, filling the air with the scent of cooking fish.

"It would. Politics means nothing when survival's what's important. It's kind of depressing that the less you have to worry about your day to day existence, the more you start doing stuff to jeopardize your own and other people's too."