"I guess it gets a little lonely in here, living oneself. Sure, you guys can stay. It's not like you have anywhere else to go, right?" Knuckles answered. He assumed that answer was a no, considering that their only real place to go was the lab they escaped from. Going through lab experiences himself, Knuckles thought that they didn't want to go back to the lab any more than he did, and that's why they escaped. Unless they was more that they weren't going to tell him, but he dismissed the possibility.

Sonic bit his tongue, trying to force himself not to say anything. He didn't think that he or his sister needed the charity, but he knew if he voiced that thought, his sister would shut him up. It was true that they didn't have anywhere else to go, other than the lab, which Sonic DID NOT want to go back to, not after overhearing what they were going to do to him. His sister wasn't mention in the conversation about dissection, but Sonic had a feeling that if they succeeded in taking him apart to learn about mobian anatomy, his sister would have next in line.