BASTIAN
Remaining still while listening to the words of that woman is proving to be incredibly difficult.
Her entire plan is unfolding before me and I must resist the urge to rip her head off here and now, but I can't, not yet, not when she has the leaders of my army under her control, not when the lives of my best friend and beta, and that of iris along with her warriors are in her power.
I have not gotten close enough to her for her to sink her claws into me, I have noticed how with the others she does not have to touch them to control them, but with me she did have to, I still remember the few moments of lucidity when I tried to regain control of my body, just a touch from her was enough to sink me back into myself, but with others it doesn't seem to be necessary, and I wonder if it'
