[Uke]

Most of the other kids thought he was weird... and why wouldn't they? A good percentage of them had dark hair, no matter what their birth hair color had been... and those that didn't still supported the blonde hair that they had been born with, though even those ones were few and far between.

Yet here he had always been with his flaming red locks, a single redhead amongst almost a thousand blondes and black-haired kids.

His companions were rare cases as well, in their own rights. The boy on his left with a bandage that was taped in place over his left eye, though it wasn't to protect it - and the girl on his right, who was a rarity only because of her gender.

Not many people sold their daughters to The Facility.

Lunch was a daily necessity that no one wanted to go through... then again, almost all of the day's actions were things that no one wanted to do. There were few things that the children of The Facility enjoyed. But lunches were on the bottom of the list... having about 500 of the more 'seasoned' members in one room was never comfortable, especially on days when a group of newer children were introduced into the batch of older children.

The three of them sat to the side, trying to ignore the stares of the newer kids as they pushed their mush around on their trays.