[They are not the same Aspect, so perhaps she will be saved from the potential bleed of actual images or memories. But the spike of painful humiliation when he asks the very sensible and simple question... that likely comes through, even if just in impression. Maybe Communion would be proof. But she had barely managed to admit in words what had happened to her to her lover, to those who claimed to be her friends, so how-

How could she ever survive showing what had happened to her to strangers? Letting them see her so weak, so utterly without control, trussed up like a unbroken mare with a bit in her fucking mouth unable to stop the screams as her enemy smugly did with her what he liked? She can't- She can't let anyone see, she can't believe for a second anyone who told her it wasn't her fault, that she shouldn't be ashamed, that it would not ruin her in the eyes of ally and enemy alike.

It takes her a second too long. She doesn't even answer. Like she didn't... like she didn't even hear that part of what he had said.]

At least neutralization, yes. The demon is one of the strongest Zenites, and he is...

[She hates saying it. She hates knowing it.]

He is "beloved". If we simply held his shard, I have no doubt people would attempt to free him. Members of our own faction, even, might in their misguided desire for mercy and kindness enable him to escape somehow.

So he should be shattered. Or "bound". Apparently... that can be done with demons.

[Akua said it was possible, but she wants-

She does not know how she will ever rest until she has found out what Sebastian Michaelis' shard shattering under her hoof sounds like.]