I didn't respond. How could I even begin to describe what Buddy and I had fled from just a short while ago? When I visited what I believed was the orphanage from which I had been taken, I made the most shocking discovery of all.
I wasn't an orphan. My mother was one of my father's supposed daughters, and therefore, I had inherited that part of him that I feared and hated the most.
I had no choice but to hope I could overcome it. I thought that would be possible only if I put a great distance between myself and them. But my older sister Ava had made it very clear to me that escaping who we were was not only impossible but dangerous.
She claimed we needed one another. There was another species of us, the Renegades, who would prey upon us as quickly and as easily as they would prey upon the normal. It was all a matter of territoriality.
"You need to be with your kind," Ava had said. "One of us alone has no chance out there."
