[ that's what you get when you run into a counselor. she listens to what is said and puts it together with what she senses emotionally and what she thinks she's hearing that isn't said. ]
A curse... or perhaps revenge? [ so she won't pretend to understand the circumstances, but she can make that leap. it would make sense if someone would come up with torture, call it a curse, and mean it as revenge. it's something that could have happened during the dominion war. ] There's no way to alter it?
[ maybe not undo it completely, but make it a little less... like torture. something to keep him in line rather than make his life a living hell. ]