Gaius’ Au-Ra adoptees are having a bad time. They were taken in by a Garlean legatus, but they’re not pure Garlean, and they’re being used as sacrificial test subjects by a confirmed child abuser and possibly an implied sexual predator. Their “dad” who is at least partially responsible for the deaths of their birth families and the razing of their homes - and what are their feelings about THAT? - isn’t around to protect them any more, so all they have left is each other.

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