"I'm sorry to hear that," he replied. It sounded a lot like what had happened with Hakkai, although worse, perhaps, because they had understood what was going on, and were trying to help. He'd just stumbled into what he suspected had been an attempt at outright murder.

He would have asked if they'd ever managed to find that cure, but from Edgar's demeanor, he was pretty sure of that answer already.

"There doesn't seem to be any limit to what they're willing to put us through, does there?" He couldn't see the end point of it all... had started to believe that maybe there simply wasn't any. The torture wasn't some means to an end, it just was.