“Again ? We can’t afford to lose staff members at this rate. It’s growing increasingly awkward to justify this, and—”

“—Not to worry. No-one has died yet. It appears we have experienced an act of sabotage or something of that nature. Whoever it was managed to penetrate the building undetected and proceeded to override the cell-locking system.”

“Oh for Pete’s sake please tell me none of the specimens got away.”

“Quite a few actually, but fortunately all of them were due for termination this week. No financial loss on this one.”

“Some good news there I suppose. Send out a team and fix the problem on the spot before someone gets killed, or worse, they find out what we’re doing here.”

“Already on the field.”

“Perfect then. What about the specimens ? Are any of them dangerous ?”

“Hard to say. The lab chief assured me they are quite harmless. No psychokinesis, no invisibility, nothing of that sort. I think one of them grows some kind of fruit on its back, so discretion might be an issue. In any case predictability isn’t their primary asset, particularly in an uncontrolled environment, so who knows what could happen.”