Double checking to make sure the man was secure, Eli set to casting the spells required to pull up a picture of what he was looking at. He needed to know the landscape before he even tried to prod and pluck at what was inside. And really that wasn't the sort of thing he should be doing with an unauthorized audience.
He made a face at the first image, not liking and not believing what he saw. Eli shook his head, taking a deep breath and trying to reign in any wayward emotions. Right now he needed to be a man of science and that meant he didn't facts, which did not have the space for fear or something not unlike dread because this hit upon a very deep fear of his. So, he did the scanning spell again just to make sure, this time even doing the extra to pull up a visual for him to see.
"There's nothing there aside from basic activity in the brain stem and a little in the cerebellum, except for that area there with abnormal activity, although that could account for whatever is controlling these things. Clinically, it appears that this brain has been stripped of everything." For a moment it was beautiful in the way that violence could be. Eli had never seen such massage level damage.
But then the whole world lurched. His usually sure, steady hands started to tremor and he had to let image go. The level of skill needed to maintain it no longer something he could manage. Instead, he put a bit more space between himself in the thing because he certainly wasn't going to call it anyone else. "Adrian," he said trying to project a clear calm voice, when he was anything but, "Can you summarize what that indicates?" Eli knew, but he needed someone else to say it.