Abe really needed to work on this acting natural thing, didn't he? This would be so much simpler if he didn't need the tactile contact. He rubbed one hand over his protruding eye socket and tried to fetch his mind from wherever Marcus had blown it. "You have...great power in you," he murmured. "I felt it."

There were monsters he'd found with great strength of being as well as body, and he tended to stay out of their minds. Marcus, on the other hand, was masquerading as human and hadn't given Abe any indication that his mind was a bad place to go poking his fishy fingers. It was almost rude.