Lumi nibbled on a bit of M&M shell. Zazi and Junior were acting awfully depressed, which was starting to really irritate Lumi. It sounded like they were ready to just quit, and drown their sorrows in chocolatey M&M goodness. Lumi wasn't going to have that. Lumi had every intention of escaping. In fact, she had every intention of getting everyone else out, even if she had to drag them along by force. Lumi stood up and prepared to give a speech fueled by her hot-headed fury. "All right, listen up you guys! You know what we're going to do? That's right, escape. Because seriously, who the @#%& are those people to think they can take us from our homes, our families, our lives, and then strip us of our basic rights? They can't do that! But think we're pathetic, worthless creatures! Well you know what I think? I think they deserve a good smack in the head with a big lead pipe! No one experiments on Lumi Nolan! No one experiments on Colin, or Zazi, or Junior, or any other human being! And we're going to show them that! We're going to make them pay! We're going to mess them up, and then we're going home. We've got the tech, the know-how, and the resources to put them in their place! So take all that sorrow or angst or whatever, and turn it into rage. Turn it into red-hot, boiling, steaming rage, 'cause that's the only emotion that's gonna get #$%@ done now."
Lumi paused, not to reflect on what she said, but to catch her breath. She felt good now, able to let out her pent up anger, and didn't regret a single thing she said.
"If you got anything to say, speak now or forever hold your peace," she said, daring anyone to challenge her.