For the sake of testing, Eve and Victor went deep into the forest. It was important that the amount of living creatures around was minimal. Victor had ordered every animal to run away as far as they could. Without singing of birds and with the wind being completely calm today, the forest became unnervingly quiet. The rustle of dry leaves and grass under Eve's feet was as loud as the crinkling of a crisps packet in a cinema.
The testing program didn't only record the data, but also put it into Victor's log, which allowed Eve access it without additional body contact—the amount of information gained from testing was small enough to allow that. The purpose of the testing was to find out which parts of the Victor's core worked when he used different aspects of his superpower. More importantly, Eve needed to find which of them worked when he didn't use it at all. Since his telepathy worked all the time and had a wide range, the only way to do it was full isolation.
