The scenes playing before her are so traumatic that she's wholly immersed, sense of actual time and place removed. Slaine is over there, half-naked and in chains. That's why when he covers her eyes, she jolts, ready to retaliate. It's only because his voice lands close to her ear that she relaxes, able to trust the presence obscuring her vision.

Mired in her outrage and empathy, her soft voice quivers in its mournful disbelief. "Slaine... is this... All of this... Did this happen to you?"