Hokuto just smiled and wagged a finger, as if scolding him. "Did I ask if I could be concerned about you? We're all in this together, so we need to watch out for each other."

His question made her pause for a second, uncertain how to answer. The problem was, even those who had been here since the beginning only had theories, and she hadn't been here that long at all. "Nobody knows for sure," she admitted. "Our best guess is that we're being experimented on--but why, and where it's going, is anyone's guess." She couldn't do anything about it, so personally she tried not to think about it.