Dane frowned, assimilating that. "She thinks they are enemies?" he guessed after a few minutes.
Seth was still sorting possibilities, but he rejected that. "Why would she think that?"
"Because they are cyborgs?"
"That is not a reason!" Seth snapped.
"Why is that not a reason?" Dane demanded indignantly. "She is human. Everyone else is cyborg! Is that not enough to make her nervous?"
"That is it! She is nervous! I could not entirely decide what it was. It did not seem like fear and yet I noticed there was uneasiness. I just could not entirely decide what emotion it was."
"Exactly!" Dane said triumphantly. "And that is because she does not have us to watch her back and she is surrounded by cyborgs!"
"She has always been surrounded by cyborgs!" Seth growled. "Weare cyborgs!"
"Yes, but we arehercyborgs. We are her team. That is different and that is why she wants to be locked up with us. Because we are a team and we are always together. Is that not what she said?"
"That is what she said, but it is not what she meant," Niles retorted.
"How do you know that is not what she meant?" Dane demanded indignantly. "It is what she said. Why would she say one thing when she meant something else?"
Seth and Niles exchanged a look.
Dane's expression hardened with anger. "I will punch you in the face, both of you, if you do not stop looking like that! There is nothing wrong with my understanding!"
"I will knock your teeth down your throat if you try to punch me in the face!" Seth snarled.
"And I also!" Niles snapped.
"Well stop looking at me like that!"
"We did not look at you at all!"
"Exactly! You looked at one another as if to say that I am stupid!"
Niles frowned, thinking. "Do you think that she has noticed that all of the cyborgs are horny?"
Seth sent him a sarcastic look. "You mean only because their dicks rise and point at her when she passes?"
"Your dick does that, too?" Dane asked with interest. "I had thought it was only mine. What do you suppose it means?"
"Why the fuck would you think it was only yours?" Seth growled angrily. "We have awakened also!"
Dane gaped at him a moment before indignation made his dark brows come together over the bridge of his nose. "Because I have notlookedat your dicks?" he said sarcastically. "I do not know why you would notice anyone else's dick!"
Seth punched him in the face. "I do not know what you are implying by that, but I will beat the fuck out of you if you imply it again!"
Dane reeled from the blow but managed to remain on his feet. Drawing his arm back, he punched Seth in the belly.
"Cease!" one of the guards bellowed. "Or we will put you in separate cells!"
Seth had already drawn back to retaliate, but at that, he lowered his arm. "We were not fighting."
The guard glared at him. "Stop ... roughhousing then or I will beat the fuck out of all of you and then put you in separate cells."
"You could not beat the fuck out of me, let alone all of us!" Niles retorted.
"Then I will summon another squad and we will all beat the fuck out of all of you!"
