"N-not yet," she replied, coughing again. "You said Red should have been there with us. We were...we were going to buy him a present. It was a surprise. He didn't know because we wanted to surprise him." She pushed her knees closer to her body. "It was going to be the first time we would have bought him a secret present..."

And yet Lyra's words in her made her realize something. Something she'd never heard before. She had her team. She had a family. But what about the others? Those that couldn't transform. What did they have? How were they treated...