"Absorbed wh-what they were....?" Rogue couldn't help but cringe at the idea. It sounded so.... so invasive.... Almost like she was breaking and entering into someone's very soul. Still, she nodded unsteadily; it seemed.... well, as accurate a label as she could think of, in spite of her discomfort with it.

"What are they? What happened to them?" Her contact with the gatekeeper had been brief, but she remembered the strange, distinctly alien feel of fleetingly sharing in a mind that couldn't possibly be human.