Burtt must be fiercer than all those around him if he and his sister are to survive. He's not a criminal, well not to his peers, he's not.But he will use any means necessary to keep Ssyndi safe. His protection extends to all the littles in his world, and woe be the prole who tried to take one from Burtt's creche. With the help of secretive well-wishing citizens from within the domed city of CommCorp, the city where these proles were forbidden entry, Burtt and his band of child warriors fight to live.