He has a series of stupid thoughts about how he should just play along, and how if he kept this up he'd be able to trick her and get free. Play her game for long enough, and he could get free of these shackles too, and he'd be home free, right? Right.

Except, this is her game, not his, and part of him knows that. That part of him, still desperately hanging on, strikes him particularly strongly in that moment, and he flinches at her touch.

And then he jerks back, fear flashing through him.