“I followed them there the week before I came back here,” he continues, his voice barely above a whisper. “I don’t know why I did it. It’s not like I thought it would stop them from bringing in more humans. But there were a lot of kids in this batch, and I…” He turns back to face me, but he’s looking somewhere over my head. “I let them go. The humans. One of the brothers, Sacha, came back to the farm alone—I guess he’d forgotten something. The brothers had confiscated anything on the humans when they’d arrived, but then just left all of their things sitting outside the cages. A few of the
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