"If that's what you want." He means the punching part, although it won't help the situation any. "I know someone who can patch up cuts and bruises." There are a couple of people, actually, but he's got a specific one in mind, who seems to realize by now that these things can happen when he's involved.

"We don't know who it is." He doesn't know about the rest of them, but that's the part that bothers him the most. Not only has someone done this to them, not only are they being watched, but whoever it is hasn't even had the decency to take credit for it. They're just hiding somewhere and expecting everyone to go along with this.

"We're being watched, somehow. We've found observation pods, although by the time we find them they're abandoned. Sometimes the people behind it leave us packages, or feasts. The area around us has recently been expanded, I don't think anyone has figured out by how much yet." It had been almost like arriving in a new place again. At least everything they'd accumulated already had come with them.

He leans back against the counter and tells her the worst part. "They have our blood. No one knows when they took it from us."