"I know." He hadn't known at the time, of course, but when he'd asked Adam about it later, the immortal had been all too happy to tell him what ability Arthur had possessed. He still didn't regret not taking it, however. "What he was having nightmares about was his ability, though. It would have killed him. I wanted to get rid of the threat and lessen the chance anyone else would ever get their hands on that power."

There was, of course, the chance that someone somewhere else already had that ability or would be born with it, but he had ensured that neither he nor Peter would never take that ability.