Avery took the lead and heading out of the building relief flooded me that we found them. Hundreds of hybrid mutation eyes watching us, fear being the main thing we saw in their eyes, fear of the unknown.

“What now?” Reika asks, looking at the children all sitting in groups surrounded by our people.

“We take them home,” Avery says, placing her hand on Reika’s shoulder. The gravity of what we had done truly sank in, freedom something these kids have never known and they are now free. Free to live and grow the way they should have been able to. Tyson and Ace lead Reika and Lucy over to...