Back to Althea's group, all the injured elders and assistants had already been brought into the hospital. However, Harold and the others, as long as they showed signs of manipulation, had to be isolated and even tied up for their own safety.
They were not certain to what extent they could be controlled exactly, even if they had their own assumptions and theories. It wouldn't hurt to be safe, and it was clear that they'd also hurt themselves as long as they were 'programmed' to do so.
It hurt them to do this to their old comrades, which made them angrier at their perpetrators.
The rest of them studied the area further, with Garan holding on to his wife so he could take her at the instant a threat appeared.
"What if they planted more bombs?" they asked, worried. It wasn't like they had a bomb detector. Not to their knowledge, anyway.
