[He helps her fish out the food and sets the kit down on a lounge table. It gives him time to settle a little more. He leans against the table instead of sitting down.]

The remains of the crew and what did it. I was right, it is definitely feeding on something. Likely fear. Once we got down there our watches went out. My team has their powers twisted. We didn’t realize it until we tried to use them.

[He grimaces, they’re both being soldiers and he went from content to be a team player to leader of the pack out of a reflexive need for stability and to protect his teammates.] I don’t know if it was the source of the whispers in our heads but I’ll bet it was. I saw it once.

...It moves through the shadows. It phases or seems to. Some of the corpses look like it had played with the victim before they died.