Romeo's POVThis was how I was now seeing the creatures through the eyes of Victoria, as they really were. Not as monsters. Not as enemies. As creatures were frightened and isolated and needed to feel comprehended. All the memories that Victoria shared with me were doors to their pain.I was able to view the laboratories where they were confined. I could see the scientists dissecting them like an insect. I would experience the suffering of the creatures when they were subjected to testing and examination and tortured again and again. The animals were not animals acting instinctively. They were living things with emotions and ideas and aspirations.Give me more, I said to Victoria. Her conscience was next to mine, and she was freely opening up things which must have been painful to her to recall. Give me all and I will come to know them well.The memories of Victoria were like a river running through me. I observed animals being taught how to talk. Learning to think. Learning to hope f

Richard's POV The cabin was all Romeo said it would be. Hidden deep in the mountains. Guarded by old government security which had not been updated over years. Yet, somewhere down the earth beneath the physical cabin, was something which no-one was to know about. A laboratory. A real laboratory. The type that the grandfather of Romeo had constructed decades ago when he was still struggling to save the world by technology rather than optimism. "How is this possible?" Then, though we were going down the stairs to the under-facility, Emma questioned. How is it that your grandfather made something like this and the government did not know about it? "Money," I said. I was recalling some of the things that I had overheard