Only Red Dream's subordinates were still standing. This made their fear peak in a short amount of time. Some of them even began to back out of the room.
He warned them gently, "Don't leave if I didn't tell you to leave. You will stand and wait for my orders, or you will pay for it dearly."
This made them stop in their tracks. Then they looked at each other in fear and panic. They didn't know what to say or what to do.
They had prepared to say a lot to him before he arrived. They were willing to say anything to him to make him let down his guard and to delay until their plans could get into place. But now, none of them wanted to say anything for fear of annoying him.
They were deathly afraid of the pain. They were only mildly afraid of it when Red Dream had informed them of it. Some of them had even ridiculed her for succumbing because of a little pain. But now they can understand why she surrendered.