Bruce files that away. Interesting--in a very abstract way, he has to keep his thinking on it distant or he'll grow angry.

But it's interesting. This place isn't just watching, then. If they're being chosen at random then somehow the powers that be are learning things about them. Personal things.

Or they're being chosen with purpose, studied before just as they're studied once here.

He smiles. "Even little comforts can go a long way."