Absolute
"Wh- What have you done to me? My strength… It's gone."
Xianner's energy was gone. Like, literally…
The way she spoke, sounded as if she lost all the meaning in life. It was as if she had realized that she would have be better off dead. But of course, death was not even an option that I had given her. Her option was to either become crippled, or to become my mortal slave. Dead was simply a too easy solution that I could not give her. She can be more useful alive, after all…
About the old man though. Uhm… I think I might actually kill him. I'm not going to give him an easy death though. What's more likely to happen, is that I'll probably make him bleed slowly to death.