⚠️WARNING⚠️ THE FOLLOWING BOOK IS NOT SUITABLE FOR ALL AUDIENCES AND CONTAINS HEAVY THEMES OF WAR, CHILD ABUSE, PHYSICAL AND MENTAL ABUSE, RELIGIOUS TRAUMA, MENTAL DISORDERS, DEATH, MURDER, BULLYING, SUICIDE, HOMOPHOBIA, AND MORE.
READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.
Heitai Manor, 3:45 AM, year 2298
"Keep it down, Soldiers. Find the kids, and get out undetected."
The group nodded as they entered the room, their leader having picked the lock.
"Damn," one of the men of the group huffed, "This place is fucking huge."
The young woman rolled her eyes, "Well duh. This family is supposed to be rich or something."
"Rich people," one woman scoffed with a hint of distaste in her tone, "You sure these pampered kids will be good enough for the program?"
"Yes," the leader confirmed, "Robinson wouldn't have asked us to get them if they weren't. Keep in down, Embress."
The woman rolled her eyes, but continued on anyways. The group made their way around the manor, completely oblivious to the horrors the people who resided here had faced in their short lives.
Embress bit her lip as she tried to open the door to one of the rooms as quietly as she could.
There, she found three children sleeping peacefully in their bed. She looked at them but was confused when she saw one of them had an eyepatch covering his right eye.
She almost took it off out of curiosity, but was interrupted by her team mate making his way in the room.
"Oh, you found them," he sighed, causing Embress to take her hand away from the child's face and place it back by her side.
"Need help?" Another of the girls popped her head in and went to help her teammates.
"Sure, there's three of them after all," Embress mumbled.
Embress dipped down and picked up the boy with the eyepatch.
The other girl picked up the other boy, and the last one took the little girl in his arms.
"They're so young," the man hummed, "Too bad we have to do this."
"What other choice is there? With that monster on the rise," Embress replied curtly.
Embress caught sight of their leader looking around the rest of the house, "Sir, we've got them. We need to go."
The leader turned and nodded, following his team out to the invisible ship waiting outside.
The leader looked to a watch tied tight on his wrist, and clicked a button. This revealed the previously invisible ship to the team, which the team promptly carried the kids onto.
They placed the three in pod-like beds, all of them still fast asleep.
Embress made her way to the front of the ship, and found the control station there.
She approached a certain section of the computer and turned her wrist to press her watch to a spot of the interface.
"Embress 332," the computer spoke robotically.
"Yes, sanakis," Embress said, recalling the word easily. The interface lit up green, and Embress spoke again.
"Robinson, we have three of them. Kaze 888, Kamlyn 887, and Kiora 889."
"Good," a feminine voice spoke from the computer, "Now find the rest of the team."
"Yes ma'am."
With that, Embress turned to begin directing the ship to the next destination.