"I thought I had," Armand said.

"I have no logical reason to think that, but do you honestly think he'll let us speak to people not under his control?" He wasn't stupid. Some of these things Armand had considered during his less franticly worried times. One of the reasons he didn't like considering it at all was that it just made him more depressed to contemplate the depth of the malice and power held by Dr. Landel.

"It makes me hate him all the more."