"It is suspicious," Krichevskoy agreed. The amount of people who had disappeared did seem to be greater than usual.

A thought occurred to him, and Krichevskoy turned his gaze down at the table, his brow furrowed. "Has there been any news of the Organization performing any new experiments?" he asked, keeping his voice low.

It seemed a little much for that to be the reason, but he couldn't rule the possibility out, either.