"I think it was like... they could control people," he explains tentatively, thinking back to the fight with Morningstar where it had been so hard to move for those terrifying few moments. "They didn't really make you do anything, though. You just seemed really scared and confused... and angry that someone was bothering you."

He kept thinking about how much like corruption it was at the time, but he doesn't mention that yet. He also pointedly doesn't mention how she slashed up his shoulder.

"So... we just had to catch you and bring you with us. You didn't like it much at the time, but as soon as we left you went right to sleep."