Jake nodded slightly. "I'm not sure they're out to learn anything," he admitted. "I think they're doing this because they can, plain and simple. There might be some official-sounding reasoning and theories and hypotheses, but ... ultimately, I think they just want to see how much it takes to break a person."
If what he'd heard was any indication, they'd gotten a little more intense about it shortly before his arrival.
It wasn't like he didn't have experience with things like this. People doing things because they could. He glanced over to David, offering him a smile in the dimness of the false half-moon. "Guess we'll see," Jake offered conversationally.