The three boys huddled together, eyeing the hospital and strange men and women from afar, feeling like trapped animals in a cage. It was cold and so bright that sleep was not really possible. Sandy had seen the other two boys already there when he'd been shoved inside the cage, terrified out of his wits and bawling his eyes out.
They hadn't taken him to the cage straight away. Instead they had restrained him in a chair as he kicked and screamed, unable to move with the tight cuffs as they brought a needle over and without warning shoved it into his arms and drew out his blood. It had hurt so bad, Sandy watching the redness of the blood being drawn into several vials and collected by the group of people wearing white coats.
Then he'd been shoved into the cage. Nothing had been said to hi
