"....scared?" Lindsay asked.

"She was... scared of you? Of people?" he asked further.

"Not fitting into your image of her, kid?" Jake asked him with a small smirk.

"...no. It's not." Lindsay admitted.

"Well, people change." Jake told him.

"And you really should meet Kiah. You should meet some family of yours." he suggested.

"....yeah...." Lindsay admitted.

Lindsay just nodded slowly in response.

"Okay." he replied.

"I'll... I'll wait..." he said.

"In the meantime, eat." Jake told him.

"You need it." he reasoned.

Lindsay nodded again, before slowly starting to eat... but it quickly turned more voracious. It was clear that he was malnourished. Not to an alarming degree, but it was definitely concerning.

Lindsay just nodded as he continued to eat, and in no time at all, he had finished what he had.

"...seconds?" he asked.

"They really give seconds?" he asked them.

"They do." Jake replied.

"You just need to take your tray up and ask." he told him with a smile.

Lindsay nodded and smiled happily, before rushing to do so. Jake watched him go with a sigh and a smile, before his expression turned more serious.

"...poor kid..."

"....Vanessa Encrae." was Jake's answer.

"So young, yet that vile bitch subjected him and his friend to such horrors." he told her.

"I didn't witness it, myself, but I know what Encrae was like." he continued.

"And those kids would have been treated as nothing but animals." he growled.

"Lower life forms."

"I agree." Jake replied.

"But Vanessa does it." he told her.

"All other species are nothing more to her than resources and pawns for her to use to get to her end goal. Age, gender, it doesn't matter. We're all equally contemptible in her eyes." he lamented.

"But for that child to have been forced to undergo genetic restructuring... I cannot even imagine the pain he must have went through." he continued.

"Peyton, Vanessa Encrae is a monster, and they're lucky to have somehow escaped." he then said, before pausing and putting a hand on his shoulder.

"...even though they'll have a constant reminder of their time there..."

Jake just smiled at her softly.

"Yeah." he said.

"That's about it." he told her, as Lindsay returned with more food... most of it being some of the spiciest stuff the cafeteria had to offer.

"Woah, like the heat there, kid?" Jake asked, noticing this.

"Uh-huh." Lindsay replied.

With that, he grabbed one of the stuffed spicy peppers and popped it into his mouth, whole.

Lindsay smiled back at Peyton.

"Same to you." he said.

"See you later, Peyton." Jake told her.

With that, she left, and Lindsay finished his food.

"Come on." Jake said. "Let's go check on your friend." he told him.

"Can we bring food for her?" Lindsay asked.

"Heh, sure." Jake told him.

With that, they got some food for her, and made their way back to the medical wing, Jake knowing full well Angela would find them before they found her.

Lindsay watched as she left, and Jake looked at him.

"All right, kid." he said.

"Go and see her." he told him.

Lindsay nodded, before stepping inside the room.

"Anna?" he asked, closing the door behind him.

Meanwhile, Jake heard a voice call to him.

"Jake! Need to talk to you and Angela, stat!" it said.

"Sure thing, boss." Jake responded.

The man just sighed.

"My apologies." he said.

"But I have questions." he told her.

"SERIOUS ones." he went on.

"I know there are new people here. I know they are here in the medical wing." he said further.

"Can I get more information on them, aside from the very brief messages I got earlier?" he asked.

"They're victims of Vanessa Encrae." Jake then said.

"...excuse me?" Sharp asked quietly.

"Yes. They are." Jake confirmed.

"The boy's name is Lindsay. And Encrae did forceful genetic recombination on him, forcing different DNA to be mixed with his own." he explained.

"And no, I don't know what animal." he quickly added.

"...oh, and he's a Fyrane." he then said.

"........I see." Sharp responded after a pregnant pause.