Both. [He says it slowly, as though coming to the conclusion itself.] Before the battle, I lost control in a way I never have. I don't know the precise nature of what caused it, only that it wasn't me. But everything I experienced... I find it difficult to control my abilities when something is affecting me emotionally. So I suppose - I suppose it's a case of one informing the other.

[Expose a telepath to a thousand people's pain simultaneously when it can't be shut off, in the middle of a war no less, and it takes a toll.]