Hansel is gone, but my war is just beginning.

I hurried the baby back to the crib and lifted up my sleeve, where a chip the size of a small fingernail had also been implanted, on the inside of my arm.

"Xavier, did you hear what he just said? Get out of the Sin Pack now, it's dangerous!"

As a precaution, Rowen implanted two monitoring chips in my body, and Hansel found the one behind my ear, relaxed her guard, and used the other one.

Anxious, I continued to speak into ...