"Dammit, Draiss, why do you have to be stubborn about this?" Ulwei asks. "You're in<em>pain.</em>Even a blind, deaf kobold could tell that. We've all just been ignoring it, because the alternative was this." "We can't ignore it any more," Nadriina says. "Especially not since the blackguard. You've changed, and it's not for the better. And you can't lie to me, on matters like this." "Nor me," Vorela says. "None of us want to see you in pain, suffering every day. Let Jashah help you... she's already helped so many of us. It's incredible."<br/><br/>While they don't say anything threatening, he can see that all of the women who have been issued one are carrying the artifacts he made for him, the ones designed to help them defeat him; a scan of their surface thoughts, particularly those with the weapons, reveals that more than a few are remembering the simulation he threw at them, of what might happen to him, some day.