What better way to learn your own capabilities than through tests? What does it matter if real people suffer? It sounds very like the Sith.

"When have we had normal circumstances?" she arches a brow at him, challenging him with the might of her five foot four inches. He has always towered over her, but now it's a little ridiculous.

"If this is a dream or a simulation, what happens will be undone when it ends, right?" she pushes her way through vegetation and toys with the Japor snippet around her neck.