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Napoleon looked down at the figure at his feet, a boy....couldn’t have been more than seventeen, eighteen at the most. “T.H.R.U.S.H. was recruiting them younger and younger nowadays,” he thought, shaking his head in disgust.
There was a pang of guilt trying to invade his insides, but he wouldn’t let it. It would have, he supposed, if he’d shot the kid with a live round, but luckily he had a magazine of sleep darts loaded in his Special.
Solo raised his head as he heard the familiar footsteps of his partner rounding the corner, and for a moment Illya poised, looking down at the boy as well.
“Napoleon, they are all children manning this satrap...some as young as fourteen I would venture a guess.” The look on the Russian’s face told his partner the man was troubled.
“Why must children be the tools of their dastardly schemes, why do they always go for the most innocent?” There was pain evident in his voice as he spoke.
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