Mob Baby: Science Fiction

The mob was her only safety, she thought, keeping her mob cap tied on firmly as she was jostled through the crowd. They might tear into houses where people were suspected of being like her, they might even trample some of their own members. They might do terrible things. But they did not see other people in the mob. There were no individual people there was only The Mob, a huge and terrible entity that swallowed everybody's individuality. It was much like the merging, she thought, and she felt a little tearful at the idea. This was only one of many mobs tearing through the cities, trying to find and destroy her kind. There would be mo merging--

Inspiration: "mob" "mob cap"
Story Potential: Medium. Mostly because I'm confused by it.
Notes: And--and then the mob *is* enough like the merging, and it, um, spurs her to reproduce herself. Which means she'll have a baby that's half mob! Okay, maybe this is actually a terrible idea. But it has some appeal.