“Regular humans. What of them?”
“Sapes? Who cares about them? We are the future.” We could tell that he knew he said the wrong thing when his two companions both hit him.
I grabbed my grandmother’s arm just as she was about to ask another question. “Grandmother, don’t be too harsh on them. It is how they are trained. They don’t know any better.”
Amalie nodded and asked the question again. “What of the regular humans?”
Gamma 15699 visibly sighed. “They are the true slaves of the collective. Victims all, they toil for endless hours in the fields. They are the forced labor that keeps Earth’s forges and fires burning. I would be surprised if half a billion still lived. The number grows smaller every year. They get used up.”
“What is your true reason for wanting to join us?”
“The truth? W
