"...Ah." That does explain it rather neatly. It's not a big leap to imagine either side wanting their best and brightest to get all the hardest hitting powers, and a smaller one yet to see them not taking 'no' for an answer. "How did you get out?" he asks, wondering just whose powers they had Seth take and where those powers ended up. The other man still hasn't answered the question of how long he was in that dismal little room.