"It doesn't seem like we have much of a choice right now." Aside from death, she wanted to add, but even that possibility seemed a little too grim, despite their situation.

Maybe she'd been too quick to jump to conclusions. Maybe there wasn't any kind of end result at all and Landel was just saying these things to turn the patients against each other. They were valuable, weren't they? They were needed here, as soldiers. That was what the data Rapunzel had found had implied.

But they hadn't seemed to need Allelujah, she thought. And if they'd decided to let a supersoldier go so easily...

"I don't think this is the sort of thing medicine can cure," she said. "It's too bad I don't think there are any surgeons here." A small twist of the mouth. "What were you planning on doing tonight?"