**************** Alys’s POV **************** “I feel trapped! Oh please, I need to get out! I need space!" It hits her out of nowhere, in full force, like a tidal wave she never saw coming. “Princess? Princess, look at me, hey, hey, look at me—” She whimpers. Oh goddess, it’s happening again! So overwhelming that she just wants it—no, she needs it to end, but trapped as they are and with no way to reach the person suffering, she remains helpless. The pain, every kind of it, just keeps piling up like tetris bricks while her fingers are frozen, and she can only watch in horror, certain that it will soon be game over, only the torture never ends. Her hands are shaking, her whole body trembling as her terror mounts up. Oh, and the dizziness—everything feels like it’s spinning, tilting, s