"Controlled?" That would explain why his nurse had looked at him this morning as if her were crazy.

He paused for a moment, musing over the implications of her other statement. "A big scorpion thing. So... there really are mutated creatures guarding this place at night?"

It seemed a little hard to believe, but so did everything he'd encountered so far. "Can you tell me what this place is and why we're all here? I have to admit, I'm feeling kind of lost."