348 Bad News First

~ ZEV ~

"What do you mean… hurt?" one of the Tigers growled. "What's happened to them?"

"Their minds, mainly, I believe," Zev said apologetically, looking at the males, almost two hundred of them, packed into the courtyard and in the buildings that overlooked it, all listening with hard faces. "They've been… controlled, and not given their freedom. So now, suddenly, they're free and they aren't sure if they can believe it. They aren't sure if they're safe. A few come from the Compound and were made, so they've never been in Thana before. This has just been a lot for them.