Gen blinked. "Oh, so these minions are real people?"

He laughed softly, not showing his horror at all. "Amazing. Really amazing. You can take any soul you like, and ... bind them to be commanded by you? To do whatever you want?"

That sounded completely horrifying. Gen's full force of amicable cheer was at full strength. "I can only imagine you were someone very powerful and important, back where you'd been taken from."