Manic aimed to keep it that way. He did his job well. He kept her safe. And he knew that when Lil was out and about in the fairly secure Los Angeles streets, she had the instincts of a cop’s kid ...but she also lived in a fantasy land when it came to deviants.
Those monsters like the one who’d just tried to mug him? They threatened the entire human race as far as Sergeant Frederick Thomas Cruce was concerned. And he wasn’t alone. The federal government understood the threat these things posed and so formed his unit and thousands like it to keep the deev population under control. And the states were happy to let them do so.
