Perhaps. Perhaps they wanted them calm and cooperative. But they had already proven they could just twist their minds, so why keep them as themselves?

All worrying thoughts but more worrying is how Yoon Bum is reacting to all of this. He looked at him, forcing himself into a calmer state of mind.

"It is unlikely. They have little reason to hide it."

He made his voice firm, to try and break through whatever was happening in Yoon Bum's mind. "We are prisoners, if we are calm or not. It would be just as easy to keep us in cages in ash pits and feed us spiders if that's what they wished. We would submit eventually."