We brought them to safehouses like this for a time, but they've since been snuck out the city by Morningstar. Set up with new lives in foster care elsewhere. [ a nod, more to himself than max. ] Better to get them away from this city.

[ and all who might hurt or use them. just because they were left behind once was no guarantee of continued protection, certainly not when their parents were rebels. ]

S'not always so dire around here, for the record, but, well.

[ a tip of his head as if to say what can you do? their presence here is built on an anomaly, a kidnapping, experimentation, or some combination thereof. 'course it's not easy. ]