*Mark*

We meet in the garden after the last set of Alphas attempts to persuade King Gene to let Rose stay in place of Emily.

None of us are successful, and as we sit around near one of the fountains, Eli dribbling a basketball that the rest of us have no energy to play with; we are all morose.

“We’ve got to come up with something,” Reece declares. “The idea of Rose going back home, of her leaving here, and never seeing her baby… I can’t even fathom ...