Chapter 66

He had been adopted, not by people, but by an unknown corporation, but there were no records thereafter of him having attended school or having gotten a job. He disappeared from legal public records after that, at the age of thirteen.

After that, all the records were written memorandum-style and referring to him as a number.

“All the other agents have similar histories detailed in their files,” King said. “They’d been taken from all over the world, adopted by a corporation, and never seen again. The majority of those taken are of aboriginal ancestry, and now that it has come to the attention of the UN, investigations are being made.”

“What about all of us?” Seven asked. “Eighty-Eight and Twelve, too? We don’t have a home other than this facility and the insides of our heads.”