"Conscripted? You mean, there was a war?" He truly thought that they had been able to stop that from happening, on that island that day. But humankind, he supposed, would always find a reason to fight and kill. His face darkened. "I suppose I was too old." Although if they had taken the other teachers..."Did you all come back?"
That was the most important part. He hoped that their mutations gave them a better chance of surviving combat, but he couldn't imagine it. Even the few missions and fights he'd done with Eric and the others had been terrible, in his eyes.