Come on dude, use your head. Just 'cause you've obviously seen better days doesn't mean you're completely helpless.

[And it's perhaps that which Kagari takes umbrage to most of all. He's been completely helpless before, and he hated it. He spent many miserable years in that miserable glass cage, just waiting and waiting endlessly to die, but the moment he was offered a way out, he grabbed it and never looked back.

He's made a good chunk of progress in the time that Theon has struggled. The main group are just up ahead, but they're just far enough that they're unlikely to notice them and intervene.]

I mean, look at where your arms are. Pretty close to my neck, right? Good place to dig your nails in to make me let go for a second. Ears are pretty sensitive, too. Plus, you're taller than me, so you could try kicking at the back of my legs to trip me--then you'd be on top and have the upper hand.

[He recites these things as casually as if he's talking about ways to prepare a meal and not, you know, possible ways for Theon to hurt him. This is fine.]

Not to mention, you've got teeth, don't you? Biting's always a good option. [He s h r u g s, then.]

Or you could've been less fucking stubborn and just leaned on me willingly, but here we are.