He paused, before sighing, and doing his own scan of her, before continuing. "Beyonder energy. Gained from interacting, either through conflict, contact, or agreement, with creatures from beyond the Far Realms. Me and mine are kind of on a crusade against them, which is related to why you and the other nine are here, intent on killing, destroying, or dealing with them and their cultists. So finding out that one of the beings that I bought is already contaminated with it, as opposed to infected, is something of an unpleasant surprise.<br/><br/>So I ask again, have you, at any point in your life, come into contact with creatures that make Far Realm creatures run in utter terror?"