Valdis didn't need anymore encouragement, she let Leo lead her out of the ship, keeping her senses close and trying to make sense of what she had seen.

"They didn't just kill it," she mused, thinking out loud, "It was like...they were trying to accomplish something. Trying to break the part of it that..."

She shook her head. She had no desire to go down that path, but the idea of a cult had appeared in her mind.

"How did they learn to do it?"