Kenzie was confused by the request, but he complied straight away. Everything that had happened so far was already confusing enough for him to know not to linger on this small moment or worry about it.
He threw the axe aside and dragged Aries out of the room. Once they were outside, Aries felt the tension in his lungs finally release, and for the first time in a long while, he could breathe something other than the metallic tang of blood. Yet, he still felt lightheaded and disgusted, his stomach churning as he tried to process what had just happened.
"What happened inside there?" he asked, his voice trembling slightly as he looked at Kenzie.
Kenzie simply looked back at him, eyes calm but unreadable, and responded,
"I should be asking that. What possessed you?"
"One minute, you are castrating me for trying to torture a prisoner and the next, you were so in support of it that you wouldn't mind killing him."
"I… I don't know," Aries admitted.
