“Unfortunately,” Tenia added. “We had to help them in order to prove we’re loyal.”
“What did you have to do?” Peri asked, her voice markedly gentler than when she’d been speaking to Myanin.
Tenia’s face tightened, her lips drawing in a severe line. “We had to bring in humans for them to change.”
Lilly sucked in a breath, and her face appeared to drain of blood.
Tenia hurried to continue. “We tried to figure out a way to keep from taking innocent people.”
“We used humans who were incarcerated,” Myanin said. “We realize it wasn’t a perfect solution. There are those who’ve been wrongly imprisoned, obviously, and there are others who…”
“Are horrible human beings, locked up for a reason and now they’re being turned into something even more evil that will allow them to act on their evil im
