I don't know if that was the case. There was... noise, fighting, I think. But I'm not sure what happened to the captors at all.

[and his captors were not all of the captors. But the standard reassurances were doled out - that it was done with, now, that they wouldn't bother him again. Linneus doesn't believe them now, necessarily, but while recovering every small reassurance helped.

A wry chuckle and a shake of his head]

Ah. I try not to contemplate too hard what it is they wanted...