Nothing to Hide

It seems like it would be better than this. Caisid thinks savagely, the flicker of a snark twitching his lips before he gave up, the effort of the expression more than he can could afford at the moment. It almost felt like breathing was too much of an effort, hisbody a heavy weight that he had never noticed before. Actually, it was becoming too much of an effort to breathe. There was panic in his eyes, but he couldn’t lift a hand to claw at his throat, or run away the blurring shapes from his vision. He simply stared at Edrei, some kind of understanding dawning on him far too late. This was her. Somehow she was doing this. Caiside tried to shake his head, to protest at all, and found his body refusing, his mind too scrambled to even form the commands it would take. He was wholly at Edreis mercy, or lack thereof. Caiside heir of fire and ash