Chapter 38: Akton
None of them had clothing. Akton watched as, one by one, the occupants of the cages all shifted, and stood blinking uncertainly at them. After that it didn’t take Talfryn long to coax them out of the chamber. None of them said a word.
Lochlann helped him search, eventually finding bins full of cheap clothes, most of it sized for children or adolescents. It seemed that, once a shifter had reached adulthood and proven not useful to Reynox, he saw no reason to keep them apart from breeding.
Akton didn’t want to think about that. It probably meant that only the most talented shifters were kept and the rest executed. And what happened to the talented ones…
“The kids’ll need these,” said Lochlann.
“Some of it will fit the adults. Come on.”
Wren did not bring up the time a
