“Yes. Arawn has a rather s******c streak, you see. He loves to see others in pain and to keep him from boredom, we must… feed his little foible. Otherwise, he has a tendency of becoming somewhat destructive. Who better to work with your friends here?” He turned to look at Lucas and the others, his eyes moving across them as if he gained great pleasure from their misery. “To amuse ourselves, first we tried to break them, to see how long they could retain use of their powers. We tested Ripley's mind reading abilities with a number of assessments. Sadly, he failed our tests. Rowena - poor thing - her ability as an empath has had her suffer greatly when we insisted she touch our current test subject while they were being brutalized. Such pain, I'm sure you can hardly imagine her suffering. Ace
