The Boy Who Glowed in the Dark

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If a man lived long enough, he risked becoming what he once hated.

Luo stood at the edge of Park Slavi in Kyiv, the capital city of Ukraine, watching people rush to work. They looked miserable. City folks spent their lives chasing treasure in hopes of escaping that same city. Luo had never understood the obsession with treasure. Until now.

A slender man with a dark complexion appeared. He looked like the man in the picture Luo had bought from the guard at Chornobyl. They called him the scavenger because of his ability to extract value from the most unlikely places. He was a loner with a reputation for elusiveness and toughness.

Luo turned his knapsack to make the yellow peace sign visible. The scavenger’s eyes went to the sticker and stopped. He studied Luo, glanced in each direction and approached. The scavenger’s fence had arranged a code for the two men to use to confirm their identities.

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