I've seen a lot, Dr. Crane. Things that I would very much like to forget if I could. But it was nothing like what I saw happening to the taken.

[ Putting down her teacup, Claire leans forward with her elbows on her knees, keeping his gaze. ]

I was allowed to see via magic what was happening. Human sacrifices, organs sacrificed. Before I was cut off from the connection, a man was having his eyes gouged out.

[ He doesn't strike her as the type to scare, and she isn't saying this to do so. ]

When I arrived, I had a false sense of...not security, but it all seemed so tranquil. Especially in Solvunn, and then as it turns out, the main perpetrator was living there all along. I'm not telling you any of this for shock value, only to explain that there's an underbelly, and I don't believe anyone knows how dark it is, exactly.