( and on his back he lands with a sudden start, and the well worn thought of but is he really blind. but after a moment he sighs, accepting defeat, and answers without moving to get back up just yet. )

If you think about it, then it's pretty logical. ( as if thinking is all he's done, and a certain roomba-related misadventure wasn't what gave him the idea. ) B. Rabbit — anything from the Abyss, no one could figure it out within a few days, especially if they didn't know much about the Abyss in the first place.

( or contracting, which they clearly didn't — or an incuse wouldn't've seemed such a novelty )

But that wasn't a problem. They were in a hurry, but they didn't think we were going anywhere. So in the meantime, why not start to think ahead? It's not so easy as copying that much power. What about how to control it? Or — ( and here it is ) — how to stop it from destroying their soldiers?

( not the sentience of the power itself, not the anger behind it that so wanted to, but more pragmatically: the same problem contractors of very powerful chains have to worry about themselves.

and if you've one such on your hands, why not try to find out how it works? )