"Anyway, those who don’t end up that way may get picked up by a Ratskink and brought down here. They look after their own. The older ones, they protect the kids. The clan leaders, King Rat and his bodyguards, they’re old men by anyone’s standards here. Clazz, some of ’em must be in their early twenties. They’re poor, but they’re great scavengers. Corner ’em and they’ll fight like demons. Got nothing to lose."