Draiss simply twisted the shard around more, still not responding to that which was going on around him. It was clear that to Draiss, all that existed was himself and the lordling squirming on the ground beneath him. "You are a villian. Villians will be destroyed. Crushed. Beaten. Broken. Their secrets looted before I choose what to do with them. Lets find out, shall we, what happens? I am curious."<br/><br/>The crystalline shards on his back were only about a quarter an inch past the skin, but they were slowly growing as he began mentally shifting the small shard he had found from the creature's body, curious to see if it could survive all the pain and anguish it had inflicted. Draiss had been wrong about applying all of it in a half second, this was going to take MAYBE five or ten seconds to get all of it across. He personally thought three seconds would kill the lordling, and removing the shard would kill the taint. Problem solved. "I function, even after all that. Do you?"