“You have to die,” Ocellus continued. “If we don’t want to get seperated, all of us do. But Pharynx doesn’t want to kill you very quickly. That isn’t much of a punishment, so… he’s going to take as long as possible. For your male, that means just locking him up somewhere with plenty of food and water but no love. Going feral is considered the worst way to kill a changeling, and it’s pretty… awful. Lots of the ones who go through that don’t recover, and they never get bodies again. But you… it’ll be worse.”