Sheriff Biggs didn’t move from where he stood at the head of the table. “Armed and dangerous?” He didn’t repeat the deputy’s comment as much as he phrased it as a question to them. “We took the weapons off the guards,” N8 informed him. “We left them in Cydney’s car before we came in here.” “We figured if the guards managed to catch up with us again, we’d have a way to defend ourselves,” T8 said. “And Pendlebrooke?” the man included. “It’s a cover for the labs,” Cydney told him. “It’s where N8 and the others are taken whenever the scientists need to perform tests on them. Yes, it’s a working institute, but they use it to hospitalize the children after they…test them.” The sheriff gave her a perplexed look. “The children?” “That’s what the scientists and doctors refer to them as,” Cydn

