Chapter 451

It was easier to control Mycah and his brothers with so much family around. As we walked through the busy halls I was glad for the assistance. I imagined that in the distant past it was always like this. The children’s care could be spread between all their breeders. It would have been a superior system.

“We need to find the others,” Hodlen was saying to Damien. “Our families share male offspring with several other families. All of us should be in the same place. Now that we are all freemen we should be close.”

“We must contact the others, now that they are all free,” Kee said seriously.

In the past, at least one of those families would be men that were good at keeping and training children during the day. Hodlen’s family didn’t want to use unrelated Child Keepers if they had an option. Family would be the best to care for the young.

“Things are going back as they should be,” Rynal said happily. “This is how we always wanted to live. We have dreamed of this a