The air that was entering my nostrils and caressing my face from that part of the palace was cool and refreshing, and very much unlike the one in-house. I wondered what made it so different.

"So even as you all tried to disappear from the eyes of humanity, it seemed that some of the children survived on their own," I said.

"You say it like it was some barbaric act we did and it was so unfair of us," he said. "Tell you something, I wasn't even there. And they were protecting the rest of themselves."

"If you were there, you probably wouldn't have done anything differently," I stated.

"You...