Yeah, I get it. He's either a sadistic asshole, or a complete dupe. Neither option is very pleasant.

He was... kidnapped? I think. I don't remember all the details, I just remember being really scared that whole first month I was here.

[Ariadne shrugs a little.] Where I come from, we have technologies that enable people to do some amazing things, things that people from hundreds of years in the past might've thought was magic, but nobody can just... do things with their minds, or whatever. Maybe it's all relative.