"Everyone has the potential to go mad with the wrong push." There's an ominous edge to the statement. "How do they lose their knights?"

She smiles a little sadly and nods. "People who knew about us didn't like us much. Our parents gave us to the government. I think they thought we'd be useful. Or dangerous. We were." Luckily they eventually got smarter and kept more to themselves.

"We were born in the same place. So we've always just been together." And nobody ever knew why or how those births happened.