Riley POV
"What is all of this?" I breathed, turning to face Elder James and Jaxon, who merely smirked at both Marigold and me, looking unsurprised by our presence as they looked behind us at all the cages and the miserable creatures contained in them. "What have you done to them all?" I demanded, finding my voice, while they simply blinked at me, unfazed by the anger coursing through my veins.
"I would have thought that it was pretty self-explanatory, Riley" Elder James's voice was quiet as several more people came flooding in behind him, dressed in white coats, their eyes gazing at us with fascination "This is a research facility that has been put to good use in discovering and recording the various differences between our species and others."
His tone was smug, as though it was some
