Three days later, Emily and I were in the kitchen of the house when I received a text from Phil. "What's going on?" Emily asked, looking at my face.

"I had Phil text me whenever Kyle and Mary's granddaughter, Ruby, was involved in anything," I said and she looked at me confused. "She and this kid named Martin escaped from Thurmond last night. Both are suspected to be oranges and were pulled out of the children's league."

"How were we able to find that out?" Emily asked, leaning forward to look over my shoulder.

"Some of Phil's greens managed to hack the system," I answered and she sighed.

"Come on," Emily said, and I looked at the time on my phone. It read 8:55, five minutes before we had to be at towncenter.

"Okay," I said as I stood up. "I'm coming. Anita, Grace, time for school." Both girls ran out of their rooms to run toward the front of the house.

After dropping Grace and Anita off at the school, Emily and I walked to the town center. Emily was only allowed to come today because she managed to learn everything being taught today earlier this week. Emily walked to a few of her friends, and as she started talking to them, I walked over to Helga. "Are you ready to leave?" she asked and I nodded. Helga grabbed my arm and with everyone else we teleported into the camp.

As I grabbed the adults' minds, something caught my attention. A man who was dressed in the same gear as everyone else was holding a gun to two kids' heads. However, since I was holding his attention, he couldn't pull the trigger. I directed the two away from the man and realized that he worked with the children's league.

When everyone had left, Helga came to get me and looked at me concerned. "Why did you let that man go?" Helga asked, referring to the man who tried to shoot the two kids earlier.

"He works for the Children's League," I answered and she sighed. Karl had a few rules that we all had to follow, not messing with the children's league was one of them. "Their monsters."

"I know," Helga said as she grabbed my arm and we teleported to the next camp. After clearing the other camp, and finding two more kids on the upper scale, Helga came to teleport me away. "What's going on?"

"What do you mean?" I asked, looking around the line of kids.

"Why did we find four upper-class kids?" Helga asked, "and why was the Children's League taking them out of the camps?"

"I don't know," I answered, "I think they're planning to use them for something, otherwise they wouldn't risk so much to get them."

She seemed to know that I wasn't about to talk about what happened today, so she shifted the conversation by asking "how is the search for the girls' families coming along?"

"They haven't said anything about searching for them," I said and I thought of something. "Has anyone seen O'Neal recently?"

"Are you trying to change the conversation or are you concerned about her?" Helga asked.

"Both," I said honestly, she nodded and grabbed my arm. We disappeared and reappeared in front of Pheonix. No one seemed to notice as we walked into the lobby. Most of the guards had been cleared out when we started taking human prisoners, but there were still plenty around because Pheonix still had kids being shipped into it.

As we looked around, I saw two young green girls who must have arrived yesterday standing by the laundry room. O'Neal stood guard by the door. She looked surprised that Helga and I had come back to Pheonix. "What are you doing here?" she asked as we approached her.

"Coming to check on you," I answered and I turned to Helga. "Could you take the girls to my house? I think one of my kids could show them around." She nodded and she teleported behind the two girls, who were both surprised to see her disappear and reappear. When they all disappeared, O'Neal turned to me again.

"What's going on?" she asked, confusion in her voice.

"Was checking on you and wanted to see if you wanted to come with me and Helga?" I asked.

"Why?" she asked.

"We found your niece, Reese," I answered and she seemed shocked by the news. "She hid as a blue in a camp that we raided today."

"How did she survive?" O'Neal asked.

"She did the same thing I did when I came here, though she never took the opportunity to leave," I answered.

"Yes, I'll come," she answered happily. Helga reappeared and she looked at us with a confused look. I nodded and she grabbed both of us. She took us to Hope and pulled away from us as Phil approached us.

"Hey, O'Neal," Phil said, waving at the former guard. "What are you doing here?"

"Resse Haviar," I answered, and Phil looked at me confused. "She's one of the kids brought in today. O'Neal's her aunt."

"Oh, right," Phil said as he remembered who we were talking about. "Thanks for telling me she was a green, by the way." I winced.

"I didn't think that Reese was her niece," I said pointing at O'Neal. "I also didn't know that she was an orange until she came in." He gave me a pointed look before Helga grabbed my arm and teleported me back to Haven.

"Why did you do that?" I asked Helga once my vision cleared again.

"Because you weren't needed there," Helga said before she disappeared again. I sighed and walked back toward my house.

"What happened to you?" Emily asked as I walked up the stairs of the porch. I gave her a pointed look, but changed it when I saw Gage and Annissa were also on the porch. After some looking around, I saw that they were probably doing school work.

"Found two oranges and two reds today," I said and they looked confused about it. I remembered what Helga said earlier, that we were finding upper class kids in almost every camp we raid now. "I also had to find and get O'Neal and almost had two kids killed by a guy who works in the children's league who really hates the upper scaled kids." All three kids winced and I nodded. "What are you three doing? All three of you finished your school work for today."

"Going over vocabulary," Annissa said. "Gage and I don't know a lot of phrases and Emily likes teaching people."

"Okay," I said, "are you two staying for lunch?" They all nodded. "Okay. I'm making sandwiches."

"Thank you," the three kids said as I walked into the house.

Hours later, after Grace and Anita had returned to the house, and Annisa and Gage returned home, Phil came knocking on my door. When I opened the door for him, I asked, "What's going on?". I nodded at the girls and the direction of their rooms. They knew instantly to go into their rooms.

"Some of the kids in tracking found something interesting," Phil said as the girls closed the doors behind them. "About Thurmond."

"What happened?" I asked, feeling my stomach drop. He pulled a photograph out of his front pocket and handed it to me. When I saw what was in the picture I gasped in shock. I knew it was terrible at Thurmond, but the picture showed me it was more disappointing than I imagined.

"What is this?" I asked, horrified.

"A couple of greens who tried to escape last night were shot as punishment," Phil explained, and I sensed that he agreed with me. He also seemed to know what I was about to say because he said "the next attack is supposed to be on that yellow camp."

"You know what I'm gonna say," I said and he nodded.

"I'll call it in," he said and grabbed one of the new phone-like devices that the greens had recently produced. He typed something, and I felt the phone I had in my pocket buzz as he sent the message.