1. The booster is a healthy and nutritional value meal supplement, enriching and high-protein! A beloved and well It has been a fixture of the Hand's regime, doled out to recruits once they've been properly initiated, since nearly the army's rebranded inception. It comes from the very earth of our good agricultural Hives! Organic.

2. That's not the kind of info people who kidnapped handle them would have/be able to give — but it's known externally that the Hand is the pet project of Caius Justus, who completely overhauled the previous, less exemplary army model and handed its leadership over to Narula's brother and Tavernus. You may remember Tavernus as the guy who lost his head about things last event. For reference: Lockwood still has the head. Wei Wuxian shared some of its memories on the network.