It's at that point that Five decides that the lake is a better thing to keep his eyes on. Whatever his powers entail, they're alone out here, giving him the perfect setup if he were so inclined. Despite that, he doesn't seem motivated to do more than smoke and stare at the lake. He wonders if Regulus had a quartz on him to help translate what they were saying, but it seems more like he's been unable to communicate all that time. If that's the case, he might have reached the extent of what he was able to learn from them.

So what is Five doing out here? He's still worked up from that earlier discovery, and it's possible that his judgment is lacking. Is he desperate enough to take Regulus back, see if he can get anything more out of the old man? Ten minutes after meeting him seems a little soon to test how open minded he is to seeing someone in a similar situation to what he just went through. -- At the same time, the window of opportunity is closing. It's out of sheer stubbornness that he still has a captive in reach, and any day now he expects someone to stumble on him.

After a span of silence, he pipes up again.

"Tell me how it works. If it's not mind reading, what can you pick up?" He'd been close to subjecting the old man to what Mingyu did to him, but held back from approaching him after being reminded. Mingyu doesn't just get the answer to a question with his ability, he seemed to read Five down to his soul and made him relive his worst memories, maybe even experience them with him. He hasn't totally recovered, so if he's going to consider his alternatives, he needs to know more about it.

"What would you do, if you were face to face with one of them?"