Javert ran over the considerable list of cases in his mind, trying to think of something to say that wasn't entirely unhelpful. For all the information they had gathered, the fact remained that they genuinely knew very little.

"Anything and everything," he said at last. "The patients almost always find themselves strapped down to a table; a doctor then proceeds to taunt them in a manner that would be almost laughable if what they did to said patients wasn't so unmistakably real. They're called experimental sessions for a reason.

"I've all but given up trying to find some sort of discernible pattern in the patients I've managed to contact. At first we thought most of the experiments had some link to psychic abilities--several of the patients who've been here longer than most, myself included, received injections to the brain that affected us in differing ways. Recently, however, there seems to have been a trend toward pure mental torture and little else--though it's only a trend in the barest of senses."

He hesitated for a moment, then added, a little awkwardly, "No-one goes through it unchanged in some way or another. That's as specific as I can make it out to be."