"Our position's been compromised. Looks like we weren't careful enough," the mutant Cummings said, sitting on the ground and gnawing on the large thigh of a radioactive creature.
Mutants did possess powerful regenerative abilities, but the process consumed a great deal of their own nutrients.
If they didn't get enough nutrients, the healing would not only be less effective, but could even fail entirely.
They had successfully escaped this latest encirclement, but they had also lost some of their people.
'A mole? That's not realistic. We haven't contacted the Steel Brotherhood since we left, so there was no way to pass on our location.'
'Could one of the mutants who came with us have sent the message? Even more impossible. We all left with nothing but the clothes on our backs. How could anyone have the ability to transmit information, especially here in the unfamiliar North?'
All the mutants who had accompanied Cummings were from the South.
