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"The truth?" I looked up, startled "What do you e of his desk in front of ent? What did she tell you about the White Noise they used that day?"

"That the caes, Reds, and Yellows could detect," I said He must have known about that--they used the same method to broadcast the location of the caerous ones that were still hiding out"

Clancy released my hand and reached back to turn his laptop so it faced us On the screen was a snapshot of ht us into camp, but the text beside it wasn’t raph aloud"

I looked up at him, confused, but did as he asked "‘Camp Controller Harris discovered the discrepancy in the Cal an underlying frequency that had been added without his consent’" I paused, lickingdevices in the Mess Hall, he came to the conclusion that the outbreak of violence there that resulted in the use of the Calm Control at approximately 11:42 was directly provoked by undercover operatives froue He believes these same operatives planted an identification frequency in the Calm Control Psi subjects 3285 and 5312 ere taken froue operative, are now believed to have been mistakenly identified as Green upon their initial classification…’"

"Keep going," Clancy said, when my voice trailed off

"‘Subjects 3285 and 5312 are believed to be highly dangerous Orders have been issued for their i?" My eyes flew up again "But the way this is written…they didn’t know…they didn’t… Are you trying to tell ot out?"

Clancy nodded "It sounds that way"

"Then I wasn’t in any danger after all? They wouldn’t have killed er," he said "They had all of the pieces, and it just took one curiouswhether or not you would have been caught if the League hadn’t planted the frequency--then the answer to that is no, probably not"

"Then why did they do it?" I deet a few kids"

"A few extremely valuable, rare kids," he corrected "Kids that would have been killed otherwise"

Seeing my expression, he added, not unkindly, "You didn’t really think they let any of the kids like us live, did you? Not Oranges Yellows, yes, because their threat can be contained, but not Oranges"

I passed a hand over my face "What about the Reds, then? They were killed, too?"

"No," Clancy said His voice became quiet, hesitant "They had a much worse fate"