MARCH 3, 2022

Sabrina needed Kevin to tell her the truth.

Her adoptive parents had named her Reese, and her birth parents had given her a name.

What was the name?

Lilly Majestic's brother needed to tell her the truth. He had to. Kevin had revealed he was related to Sabrina, but he hadn't elaborated.

"Who are my parents?" Sabrina said. "Who are my birth parents?"

Bowie Low and Prim Low were Sabrina's adoptive parents. Like the poor Doug, Bowie and Prim were dead. Maybe Sabrina's birth parents were beyond the Freeman base's gray walls, alive and well.

"Your birth father is Theo Majestic," Kevin said. Sabrina's pulse quickened. "Your birth mother is Lilly Majestic."

A shuddering breath left Sabrina, and she pressed her back against a wall.

"You already know that I'm Lilly's younger brother," Kevin said. "You're my sister's child. I'm your uncle. And your birth name is Nova Majestic. You're the second child of Theo and Lilly. Your siblings are Nick Majestic, Hailey Majestic, and Anne Majestic. Nick is your older brother. Hailey and Anne are younger than you. Anne is eleven years old. She will be twelve in December."

Jake came closer to Sabrina and Kevin.

"You're my sixth cousin," Jake said. He smiled. "You and Anne are my distant relatives."

"Theo is my father," Sabrina said. "But you never told me, Kevin."

"Theo wanted to tell you the truth himself," Kevin said. "But he's not here, and he might be dead. I had to tell you the truth. I didn't do what he wanted. I did what he needed."

Anne stepped closer.

The girl, she had come from the same people as Sabrina. Anne and Sabrina had embraced, but it had happened before the revelation.

Sabrina's first parents were Anne's parents. They were sisters.

Jake had mentioned Theo's children, which Sabrina was one of. Her best friend hadn't known the truth when he informed her Theo had kids.

"He told you the truth," Anne said.

"Where are our siblings, Anne?" Sabrina said. "Where's Nick and Hailey?"

"I don't know," Anne said. "My mother, Summer Sinister, took me away. I don't know if they're alive."

"Summer Sinister?" Kevin said. "Do you mean Summer Locket?"

"Locket my mother's maiden name," Anne said. "After she kidnapped me, she married my father, Bane Sinister."

A person named Summer had kidnapped Anne.

Why?

"Your parents are Theo Majestic and Lilly Majestic," Kevin said. "Where's Summer? I need to talk to her. You said that she kidnapped you."

"She did it to protect me," Anne said. "Theo was a target. The royal palace was a target. My mother had to take me."

"Stop calling Summer your mother," Kevin said. "Your mother is my older sister."

"Who's Summer?" Sabrina asked.

"She's Anne's Watcher," Kevin said. He faced a wall, then pressed a hand against it. "I can't believe she kidnapped you, Anne. She took you away from your family."

A Freeman had taken away Doug Scape's life. Jake had chosen to save Sabrina first, but that had resulted in a friend's death.

Doug heard nothing.

Sabrina wished Jake had saved the dead boy. Regardless, Doug was lifeless and wouldn't stand. He couldn't stand.

A hand met her back.

"Sabrina, are you okay?" Kevin said.

"No," the girl said, telling the truth. "My friend isn't going to see his sister again."

"You're going to see your other sister," Kevin said. "Hailey is alive, I believe. Be glad you have the luxury that Doug doesn't have."

"You're really my uncle," Sabrina said.

"I am," Kevin said. "Theo picked me to be your Watcher. Lilly approved. I belong with you, and I'm not going to let Lock Tannis kill you. He's not going to kill this Majestic."

He patted Sabrina's arm.

"Thanks for everything," Sabrina said. "Uncle Kevin. I'm happy that I get to call you that."

"You're still here," Kevin said. "You're not like the bodies I found outside. You can breathe and you can still fight. You can kill Lock Tannis."

Anne fiddled with her fingers.

"She can't," Jake said. "Sabrina, you're a child of Theo, but you can't kill Lock. You saw what happened when Strife got too close to you. Doug died. A Freeman killed him."

Sabrina hadn't forgotten what a Freeman had done to her friend Doug.

"Lock Tannis might agree to fight Sabrina in a sword duel," Kevin said. "It has to be an actual fight. The Freemans won't respect someone who does something like kill their leader in their sleep. It's too cowardly. Sabrina can turn intangible, but it would still be fair. Lock Tannis has his powers. Sabrina has hers."

"I'm not sure the Freemans would see that as fair," Jake said. "She can literally become untouchable. And did you say there were bodies outside? Did I hear that right? Dead bodies?"

"Yes," Kevin said. "Dead Soynite bodies. Someone blasted them with laser beams, I think. I assume the Freemans did it."

Dead Soynite bodies.

More lifeless Soynites were beyond the solid walls. Doug. He couldn't help his Highs.

"Where are we going next?" Anne said.

"Wait," Jake said. "Kevin, you need to know some things. The former Highs joined Lock Tannis, but Theo didn't. He's the only former High we can trust. And Lovely Windsore is blind. Me and Sabrina haven't reunited with her, but we did learn that she can't see. Her eyes are useless."

Lovely Windsore.

Sabrina hadn't forgotten her. The orange-haired menace had launched trouble into her fellow Highs' lives, and she had savored their sadness and frustration. Lovely was only a bit better than the pale morons.

"That's terrible," Kevin said. "None of you know where she is now?"

"No."

Blindness burdened Lovely. Her eyes were as useless as Doug's corpse. He had been helpful in life, but he would never leave the building alive. A Freeman had killed that opportunity.

Sabrina fiddled with her fingers.

"We have a dead boy and a blind High," Kevin said. "What other misfortune is waiting for us? Okay. Here's the plan. We're going to stay here for a longer period of time, kill any Freemans we see, and then we're going to leave."

Sabrina imagined herself shooting and killing a nameless Freeman.

Good.

The Soynites were going to stay in the base for a longer amount of time, kill more Freemans. A Freeman had stabbed Doug in the heart. It wouldn't be fair to not stab death into more Freemans.

"Good," Jake said. "I want to see the home you and Sabrina live in. I can call my Watcher there, let him know that I'm okay."

"Ine Rain changed his name to Peter Wayne, Kevin," Sabrina said. "Jake told me that he left Peter with a girl. Her name is Maggie Up."

"She saved my life," Jake said. "And she..."

"You have to tell me the truth, Jake," Sabrina said. "Eventually. I don't know what that Maggie girl told you, but it's bothering me."

"You told Don Ascend to tell Lock Tannis to come here."

"Is that true, Sabrina?" Kevin said. The girl nodded. "Jake, it's fine. This girl is a tough Majestic. In addition to that, she has friends. And she has me. We can kill Tannis. Together."

Jake turned his attention to Doug's corpse.

Sabrina turned.

A Freeman watched her. He held a red sword in his hand.

"You!" Sabrina shouted. "You killed my parents! Kevin, that's him!"

"You're right," Kevin said. The Freeman rushed into the neighboring hall. Sabrina ran toward the nearest pile of Freeman belongings, bent down. "We're going with you."

A sword sat in its red scabbard, its handle black. The killer of Bowie Low and Prim Low, his sword had a black handle.

"No!" Sabrina said. "I need to kill him on my own!"

Sabrina wrapped her fingers around the sheathed sword's black handle. She pulled the weapon free.

The girl stood.

"I'm going to come back," Sabrina said. "Right now, though, I have to kill this Freeman."

She went on the hunt.

Sabrina found the Freeman outside. The High had listened to the murderer's footsteps. They had led her to the space outside the gray building, the building Doug would never escape.

The base's exterior reflected the sun's light. A bird chirped. The bird was free to fly and Sabrina was not free to live in peace. Killing Lock Tannis would change that. It would bring peace.

Killing the murderer would bring some peace.

Black paint adorned a tree. The dark substance formed a double triangle on the rough bark.

He is always with us, that was painted below the double triangle.

Resting against the tree was a syringe. Purple liquid sat in it, useless as it remained outside Sabrina's bloodstream.

Three men lay on the grass.

Three women lay on the grass.

Soynites.

Their chests didn't rise and fall. Holes riddled the lifeless bodies. Laser beam holes, Sabrina assumed.

Six Soynites, dead. If Sabrina was a lucky daughter of Theo Majestic, she wouldn't die and lower the number of Highs to five.

"Did you kill these Soynites?" Sabrina said.

"No," the Freeman said. "I did kill your parents. I recall seeing that man with you, back when me and my people were doing what Great Leader Lock Tannis wanted."

"My name is Sabrina Sam," Sabrina said. "When you killed my parents, I was Reese Low. Before that, I was Nova Majestic. I'm Theo Majestic's second child."

Kevin had told Sabrina the truth.

Despite what Theo had desired, Sabrina's uncle had informed her about her heritage.

Theo had children, but Sabrina had no children herself. The Soynite race needed to grow bigger, gain new members. Though, for Sabrina, becoming pregnant seemed almost as undesirable as sparing a Freeman's life.

Sabrina would not spare her parents' killer.

Thanks to Jake, the girl hadn't lost her life inside the gray building. She lived and she could avenge Bowie Low and Prim Low. The blonde High had to.

Sabrina hoped her sister Hailey was as brave as she was. Anne had revealed her bravery, her great courage. She was as great as a Majestic because she was a Majestic. Like Sabrina.

"And you want to kill me," the Freeman said. "That's simply the way it has to be. My name is Vale Lit, and I killed your parents. I want to kill you. You want to kill me. Great Leader Lock Tannis gained his supreme authority by winning a sword fight."

"I'm going to kill Lock," Sabrina said. She bent down, set the sword on the grass. The Soynite warrior stood, took off her hoodie, then dropped it. She picked up the sword. "You're going to die before he does."

Wind brushed Sabrina's bare forearms.

The wind brought warmth, but it wouldn't help the girl with the sword beat and kill her enemy.

When she was in the Freeman base, Sabrina had shot Hush Warden. He had died. His corpse had morphed into smoke that rose, and his great killer had the potential to stab another Freeman in the heart. Vale Lit had a heart.

Don Ascend.

His heart beat, Sabrina hoped.

Poor Doug had preferred for the girl to kill Don, but she had spared him. Jake knew why. Don had to deliver the Freeman ruler a message. If Don got killed, his power to do Sabrina a favor would die.

"I told Don Ascend to send your leader a message," Sabrina said. "Lock Tannis is going to come here. He's going to come to Earth, then I'm going to kill him. Your not-so-great leader will be dead soon. Trust me. I'm tough."

"Being tough doesn't guarantee your survival," the murderer said. He pointed his sword's sharp tip at a dead Soynite man. The wind made the lifeless man's black hair move. Even though he couldn't move himself. "That Soynite there was possibly tough. Someone killed him. How? Because someone was tougher than him."

"Do you think that you were tougher than my parents?" Sabrina said. "You weren't fair with them. They were running when you killed them."

Vale nodded.

Yes, he had murdered the Low parents. He had shot them to death when the invasion raged.

Sabrina dropped her sword.

"I did what Lock Tannis wanted," Vale said. "I will continue to do that-"

His enemy aimed and fired.

With a satisfying noise, the red laser shot through hard bone. It ruined the murderer's brain. After it broke through the back of Vale's head, the laser resumed its journey, glowing.

"You weren't fair with my parents," Sabrina said. Vale hit the grass. "I wasn't going to be fair with you."

If the High chose to be unfair in order to kill the Freeman ruler, the Freemans wouldn't respect her. Sabrina would have to fight fair against Lock Tannis.

Vale's head wound pushed out blood.

Injured, The Freeman trembled. White drifted high above, clouds moving as Sabrina's craving for the Freeman's death moved through her.

When Sabrina put her hoodie on, the Freeman stopped shaking.

His corpse became smoke.

Sabrina had killed a person she had needed to kill. The High had chased, aimed, killed. Thanks to her greatness, Bowie Low and Prim Low had gone avenged.

Avenged.

With a smile on her face, Sabrina entered the base through the door she had used to make her exit.

A door in the hall was open. Wailing emerged from the room it opened up to. Sabrina rushed into it.

Laser beam fire sounded. Red darted toward Sabrina's temple, the laser rushing. Sabrina turned intangible.

"You're not going to kill him!" a Freeman shouted. "He was just born today, you foul Soynite!"

Sabrina killed the foul Freeman.

Forman Sink. That was his name. It was designed onto the Freeman's combat uniform.

Someone screamed.

A Freeman woman sat in a bed. Her pale hand stayed near an idle laser pistol, the weapon sitting on the black comforter.

Sabrina fired a laser into the woman's head.

Honda Sink. That was the woman's name. Her combat uniform rested on top of her covered legs. Her name was designed onto the uniform's front.

A backpack leaned against a wall, the red meeting gray.

Lovely Windsore was blind. What color were her eyes? Maybe they had become gray. Her eyes had been green when Sabrina met her.

Sabrina had made red paint the adult Sinks' foreheads.

Now, while the High maintained her position in the room, the lifeless Freemans became smoke, turning into what Vale Lit had become.

Vale had done Sabrina wrong.

It was why the girl had shot him to death. Outside, past whatever Freemans lurked in the halls, beyond the gray walls, Sabrina had killed Vale.

She had made the world a better place.

Not even Freeman babies deserved the right to live. Due to Sabrina's close proximity to what wailed in the crib, she clung harder to the belief Freeman babies had to die. She had to. If she didn't kill a Freeman child that needed to be killed, that pale youth could grow up and kill her.

"You're going to kill him," Sabrina said, talking to herself. "You know you have to do it."

Baby formula sat on the long table in the room. A stack of clothes stood next to the baby formula. The pale baby's parents wouldn't dress their son anytime soon.

They never would.

Six bottles stood in a line, their nipples pointing at the gray above. In the building, Sabrina had seen too much gray. And she had seen more than enough Freeman morons.

Sabrina stepped past the crib, grabbed the sheet of paper resting on a table.

Name: Suntro Sink

Gender: Male

Birthday: March 3, 2022

Birthplace: Free

Father: Forman Sink

Mother: Honda Sink

Sabrina folded the sheet of paper several times, moved it into her pants pocket.

He didn't stop wailing.

Past the crib's red bars was a baby with too-pale skin. Black hair. Brown eyes. He was younger than Sabrina, so young he couldn't put up a fight.

Great.

Not planning on letting smoke inhalation kill her potential victim, Sabrina pushed the red crib. Its black wheels rolled against the hard floor. She moved the crib until it bumped the wall.

"Goodbye, Suntro Sink." Sabrina said.

She aimed her red pistol at the pale baby. He wailed and wailed and wailed.

Someone had wrapped a red blanket around the newborn Freeman's small body. Maybe his father. Maybe his mother.

If Sabrina killed this defenseless baby, one less Freeman would be in the world.

Vale Lit hadn't been fair to Sabrina's parents.

The Freeman had gunned down innocent people, people who hadn't earned their brutal deaths.

If Sabrina killed Suntro, what would that make her?

A sigh left Sabrina, heavy. She looked at the bed, tossed the red gun onto the pillow.

The baby wailed.

"I'm coming," Sabrina said. She exhaled. The baby didn't have to die. The High approached the crib. "It's all right."

Sabrina's hands reached the newborn. She took him out of the crib, choosing not to murder a baby.

He had stopped wailing.

"My name is Sabrina Sam," Sabrina said. "Your name is Suntro Sink. I'm sorry I hurt your parents, but I had to do it. They were going to kill me."

Unable to talk, Suntro kept his brown-eyed gaze pinned on the Soynite's face.

"I have a best friend," Sabrina said. "His name is Jake Wayne. He's my sixth cousin. We're so distantly related, but Jake is like a brother to me. Me and him spent a few months living inside a spaceship together. We're Highs. We're the rulers of our planet. I will let you see Jake. He should still be alive. Hey, I really doubt you've gone to New York City, but you should go there. That means I'll have to take you there, considering that I'm all you have. Me and my uncle used to live in that city."

Sabrina caressed black hair.

"You're cute," she said. "The last time I held a baby was years ago. Her name was Kara Ascend, and she might still be alive. She lived with me and Jake inside the spaceship I told you about. Me, her, and Lovely Windsore were the only girls. You wouldn't like Lovely if you met her. Trust me. She's a blind moron. Even before that, she was awful. Anyway, you're with me now. I'm going to take care of you. I promise."

When she returned to the hall containing her uncle, Jake, and Anne, Sabrina didn't take off her new backpack.

Anne stood between a man and a woman. The man's gray hair was past his shoulders. Tinted X-ray vision goggles prevented Sabrina from seeing his eyes.

He removed the eyewear. Blue. His eyes were blue.

"Brilliant," the man said. "This building has been cleared of Freeman enemies. Although, there is a harmless Freeman among us."

Sabrina's red backpack carried special cargo.

The two Strife daggers were on the floor, one of them close to Anne, the woman, and the man. The other Strife dagger was close to Kevin and Jake.

The woman had brown hair and blue eyes. Like Anne, the newcomer man and the newcomer woman didn't wear Soynite pendants.

A Soynite laser pistol was in the woman's hand. Sabrina didn't know how skilled the lady was with a gun, but the girl needed to protect her backpack's content. Sabrina could turn intangible. Much to her dismay, Strife weapons were in the hall. They weren't too close to the blonde, but they could become too close.

Initiating a fight would be bad.

Kevin stood across Anne. Jake stood beside Kevin.

"What's going on?" Sabrina said.

"The woman is Summer Sinister, originally known as Summer Locket," Kevin said. "We talked about her earlier. The man is Bane Sinister. They are Anne's adoptive parents. Summer and Bane, this is Sabrina Sam. Her original name is Nova Majestic."

"I remember you, Nova," Summer said. She spoke with a Soynite accent. "When I saw you for the first time, you were outside that home of yours. That was before the Freemans spread his glory across the planet. What the Freemans did to Soy and its people was so great."

"What do you mean?" Sabrina said. "The invasion wasn't great at all."

"You're wrong, sister," Anne said. She studied Sabrina with her blue eyes. "Worship Lock Tannis like I do, then you will see the truth."

Sabrina's heart lurched.

"Your sister knows His greatness, Nova," Bane Sinister said. While holding his X-ray vision goggles in one hand, the man rubbed his index finger against his thumb. "Be a good girl and realize His greatness, too."

Vale Lit hadn't been great.

He had supported Lock Tannis, and Bane and Anne supported him. Before Sabrina killed Vale, she had seen bodies that were riddled with laser beam holes.

Vamp had been near the corpses.

Someone had painted a black double triangle on the tree. Words had been painted underneath.

"It was you," Sabrina said. She aimed her eyes at Anne. "You killed those Soynites out there."

"What?!" Kevin said.

Summer caressed Anne's hair, kissed her blonde locks.

"Good girl," the woman said.

Don't touch her again, you cultist moron.

"Anne, how did these two convince you that killing people was the right thing to do?" Sabrina said. "You're my sister. You're not supposed to be someone who kills innocent people!"

Sabrina had never killed a person who didn't deserve to lose their life.

Six Soynites had dropped. It had been Sabrina's sister's work. Cruel work.

Anne took a step closer to Sabrina.

"I tried to make those Soynites see the truth, Nova," Anne said. "They tried to kill me because of it. Me, my father, my mother, all of us are part of the Lock Tannis Church. I have so many brothers and sisters, and you can be with us. Join our family. I want you, Kevin, and Jake to join me and the other worshippers of Lock Tannis. It's okay. If you refuse, you won't be hurt. We'll give you time to think about it. You won't be killed."

Bane chuckled.

"None of you have to become like Bane Sinister's father," he said. He pointed at Sabrina. "We're going to find that biological father of yours, darling."

"Are you going to kill him like Anne killed those innocent Soynites?" Sabrina said.

"That's a question I won't answer, Nova," Bane said. "But I will say that Anne is not a Sinister. Her last name is Majestic. I want Theo Majestic to know that his daughter is being raised by a Lock Tannis worshipper. Anne belongs to the Lock Tannis Church. She belongs to this wonderful family I started. The Lock Tannis Church is here because of me, and the glory of Lock Tannis is real. He is real."

"What kind of a twisted man are you?" Kevin said. He clenched his fist as he wielded a Freeman laser pistol in one hand. "You murdered your father, then created a cult. Summer, why didn't you kill this freak when you had the chance?"

"Bane saved my life!" Summer said. Her scowl didn't disguise the rage slithering in her. "Treat my husband with respect, Ken."

"That's not my name anymore," Kevin said.

Bane smiled.

Summer turned Bane's head, kissed him with no shame.

"See, Ken?" the cult leader said. "The lady loves me. Your niece and so many others love me. My father loved me too, but it's not always wise to trust everyone."

Sabrina had trusted Anne. The younger Majestic now stood between two cult members. The three worshipped the Freeman who had gotten good Soynites killed.

"You're right," Jake said. Sabrina furrowed her brow. "But your cult is wrong. Your worship of Lock Tannis is wrong. We're going to try to save Anne."

"We will, Jake!" Sabrina said.

Sabrina would save Anne from Bane and his cult.

Anne's Watcher had kidnapped her. Summer had taken the girl from her family, the family that was more benefit than burden.

"I don't need to be saved," Anne said. She moved her hands to her backpack's straps. "All of you do. Heretics need saving. Can we leave now, Father?"

Bane put a wrinkled hand on Anne's shoulder.

A great hero didn't force Bane's hand off Sabrina's sister, and the sixteen-year-old despised it.

"Me and my family are going to leave now," Bane said. "Have fun with motherhood, Nova."

Sabrina would.

The cult leader moved a hand into his pocket. Bane, Summer, and Anne vanished, teleporting.

"My sister worships Lock Tannis," Sabrina said. "I just met her today, and I had to find out what she is. She even killed the Soynites outside."

"The situation is horrible, I know," Kevin said. "You still have another sister, and she's good. Hailey is the most compassionate kid I've ever met."

"She probably changed," Jake said.

"Perhaps," Kevin said. "What if she didn't? What if Hailey still clings to Soynite tradition?"

"That means she won't be a fighter," Jake said. "We need fighters, especially now that we know the Lock Tannis Church is out there."

"I don't care what Hailey is," Sabrina said. "I just want her in my life. One of my sisters is part of a cult that worships Lock Tannis. My other sibling, Nick, is gone. I don't know where he is. I want to see my sister. Hailey. I want to see Hailey."

"I know you do," Kevin said. "And you will. We will. Right now, we have to get out of here. Bane said there are no more Freeman enemies. I believe him. But other Freemans might come here. We have to go. As for Doug, his body has to stay here. We can't waste any time."

"Burying Doug won't be a waste of time," Sabrina said.

A friend's body stayed in the long and gray hall, dead. Doug would never breathe. Because he had taken a Strife dagger to the heart, death had claimed him, had spoiled.

Sabrina would rather have Lovely be dead than the too-lifeless Doug.

"I'm sorry," Kevin said. "But we're going to leave your friend here. I don't doubt that he was a good kid, but we might end up like him if we stay here."

"I want to know what Bane was talking about," Jake said. "I know he was being wild, but he mentioned a Freeman. And he said something about motherhood. He was talking to you, Sabrina."

The baby wailed.

"What do you have in that backpack?" Kevin said.

"Who do you have in it?" Jake said.

Sabrina took the backpack off. After walking closer to the nearest wall, she moved the backpack against it.

The girl had to show her uncle and best friend the orphan.

Sabrina kneeled. Part of the biggest pouch was unzipped. The girl had left it like that on purpose.

"I killed his parents," Sabrina said. "His name is Suntro, but I'm going to give him a new one."

She unzipped the backpack's biggest pouch.

The girl brought her hands to the blanket-wrapped baby, and she lifted him out the backpack. Sabrina turned. As the blonde teenager held the Freeman baby, Kevin and Jake took multiple steps back, as if the pale newborn were a Freeman flash grenade.

Wailing stopped.

"It's okay," Sabrina said. "I got you, baby. You already know that, don't you?"

"Sabrina, why didn't you kill it?!" Kevin said.

"I wanted to, but I couldn't!" Sabrina said. She strangled the urge to hurl awful sentences at her Watcher, her mother's brother. "He's a baby. If I killed him, I would've been as bad as the Freeman who killed my parents."

"That thing is a Freeman!" Kevin said.

Obviously. Sabrina could see. She wasn't Lovely Windsore. To the blonde's good fortune, the Freeman baby wasn't Lovely.

"He isn't a thing," Sabrina said. "I'm going to name him right now..."

Names rushed through Sabrina's mind.

"Ben," she said. "His name is Ben, and I'm keeping him. If you have a problem with that, what are you going to do to stop me, Kevin?"

Jake ran a hand through his hair. He went to stand beside Sabrina.

"I'm with Sabrina," Jake said. "If she wants to keep Ben, I'm okay with it."

"Thank you, Jake," Sabrina said.

Jake slammed a door between him and hope, but he sided with his best friend. Smart. Sabrina carried a beautiful baby boy. Kevin would rather see Sabrina shoot the newborn in the head, but Jake was not Sabrina's uncle.

Kevin clenched his fists, unclenched them.

"What you're doing is awful," the man said. "Regardless, let's go. We're going to get out of this place."

Kevin Sam.

Who was he? A Watcher, a brother, an uncle, a friend. He would love Ben. The Watcher would love who Sabrina would love.

She didn't love Ben, but she would.

"Jake, grab the red backpack," Sabrina said. "I want to keep it."

Jake grabbed the backpack, obeying his friend's command. If Kevin had commanded Sabrina to kill Ben, she wouldn't have done it.

"Before we leave, we have to go to the room where I found Ben," Sabrina said. "I need to get baby stuff that was in there."

They could put the supplies into the red backpack, then leave together, baby Ben included. Weak as he was, the baby would grow. His new caretaker would help him survive.

Sabrina moved.

"Hey, Sabrina," Kevin said. Sabrina stopped, faced the man. "Your birth parents love you so much."

Sabrina bowed her head.

Theo Majestic and Lilly Majestic loved her, but they weren't with Sabrina, and she wasn't with them. But now the girl carried a baby she had named Ben.

She would love him.

Theo Majestic's second child had become a mother.