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Station Security Logs

Anonymous Letter Submitted to Station Chief Domis Jake

Terra-Sol date 3812.126

This morning, fifteen children escaped from a facility on your station. Level twelve, corridor sixteen, suite 345. It looks like a clinic from the outside, and I think it’s actually used as one most days, but the back rooms are different. There’s a team of doctors doing experiments on orphaned children there.

They took me from the processing center before I could be placed on a transport. My parents were dead, and I didn’t have other family, so no one noticed when I went missing. They picked the others the same way, but I don’t know if they got them from the same place. I also don’t know if you’ll ever figure that out, even if you investigate. It’s hard to track people who barely exist and aren’t being missed by anyone.

I don’t know what they’re trying to learn or create, but I do know I couldn’t get everyone out. There are a lot of kids left in that place. Chances are they won’t be there for long. It’s not like the “doctors” won’t notice our disappearance. They’ll either move or eliminate the others soon. I’ve told you what’s happening and where to go. Now, it’s up to you to save them.

Don’t look for me. You won’t find me, and I’ve already told you everything I know.

Sincerely,

A Shadow

File Note by Chief Domis Jake

Terra-Sol date 3812.129

Twenty-three children between the approximate ages of eight and sixteen were found exactly where this letter claimed they would be. There were signs of an earlier struggle and the means for holding a seventeen more, assuming the facility was at full capacity before the alleged escape this morning. The ones we found described their would-be rescuer as a boy between twelve and fourteen with brown skin, dark hair, and a quick mind. So far, no one matching that description in the correct age range has been spotted. Given that we traced the source of the letter to a public terminal near the docks, I’m not the only one assuming “Shadow” is already long gone.