"I suppose it's possible there's a storage locker somewhere on board with desiccated corpses neatly stacked in rows, but it seems far more likely that they simply cease to be. Or become like the invisible entities that haunt this place." Huh, he'd never thought of that.

"Also draining people like batteries was told directly to someone by the Captain himself, which means it also might be a lie. But I tend to believe him, he has no reason to lie when the truth is far more traumatic."

Max is nowhere near as charitable as she is, though maybe he'd reconsider if he suddenly had the ability to shoot icicles out of his hands or telekinetically throw things.

"Anything we do may further doom us instead of save us, or the reverse. At any moment. That's probably what he wants, us demoralized into inaction so he can toy with us better."