"Yeah, and they're gonna stay that way. For good."

He was still bleeding slightly from where they'd sawed at his plastron - and still shaking, now that the adrenaline haze was fading and leaving him feeling weaker.

This was one of the closest calls he'd ever had and it'd been made all the more horrifying by the fact they'd been forcing Mikey to watch. That was the part he found most unforgivable.