Chapter 58

“You’re aiding and abetting,” added Twelve from behind him.

“You’re going to get terminated.”

Strange that Eighty-Eight would say that, but not say that he and Twelve would be the ones to do it. Maybe they, too, felt this reluctance to harm the other. Seven hoped so—he found he rather liked them, here at the end.

“I won’t,” Seven said with a smile. “Because I’m going to escape.”

“How can you possibly think that you can escape from here?” Eighty-Eight asked, sighing. “There is no escape, not for us.”

“There is, and if I can get out, then so can you. They know where our bodies are. They can free us. Don’t you want that? To see the world outside for once?”

“What would we do?” Twelve asked, a high note of anxiety entering his voice. “I don’t know what it’s really like out there IRL. We don’t know what to expect or what will happen to us. At least we’re safe here.”