"Allow me to demonstrate what 'unwilling cooperation' truly means."
I had a strong sense of foreboding and turned my gaze toward Zephyr.
"Gah!"
Suddenly, his body went rigid. A sharp, broken gasp tore from his throat - the first sound he'd made since being frozen. His vacant eyes remained unfocused, but they now glistened with tears that hadn't been there before.
"I'm not simply holding him in stasis," Ossian explained conversationally, as if discussing the weather while my friend suffered. "I'm currently wandering through his mindscape. Right now, I'm showing him a very particular memory - the memory of his greatest failure - the death of his family."
Zephyr's lips moved soundlessly, forming what looked like the word 'sorry' over and over again.
