Adrius rubbed the back of his wrist as if the effort still lingered there.
"Yeah… before you arrived, Lysander and I tried to force an opening in the seal three separate times," he said. "All those attempts have failed. Not because the cocoon, which is the seal we made, resisted, but because the moment we tried to interact with it, the being inside reacted."
Lysander nodded, his expression tight. "Every time we attempted to probe his essence, the storm matter inside him surged. It almost cracked the outer bindings. We can't risk that."
Eccar crossed his arms. "I saw it myself. The bindings shook like they were about to explode."
Aesa added, "And that wasn't even with him awake. If he wakes suddenly, the seal might break entirely. And we might even need to kill him without getting anything."
