If my analysis said the Naturals program would be for them—or one of them, anyway—what it had been for the five of us. A sanctuary. An opportunity. A home. That was the real reason I’d recruited so few young Naturals since we’d taken over. The Naturals program was designed to provide training and experience to gifted individuals whose brains were still developing—adolescents. But after everything I’d been through as a result of working with the FBI, I couldn’t and wouldn’t bring any kid here unless I thought they would be better off with us than in the life they were leaving behind.
