[Lucas listens in silence to the recitation and remains silent for a long while after.]

What does it mean . . . ? They were fighting against the people that were 'changing' them, right? But Billy Smith is only a little boy. Those aren't things that someone that age . . . And if this is after he's become a drone, how can it be that he remembers what happened before?

Sally . . . I don't remember anything about Sally. Just an Annie . . .