"Fool" she hissed when to the surface of his mind came something to be used against him, a weakened link in his armour. "This will be used against you by whoever you show it to." Her assault on his mind intensified, showing him images of his mother, she who had been brought to the forefront of his mind, in all manner of gruesome ways, but each ending in the same bloodied fate, be that following torture or other aspects. The last one she pressed upon him was he himself slaying her. As she pressed this image she stepped close to his body, lording over him yet again. She wanted him to feel the pain that could be subjected to him through the mind alone.
Not once did she relieve the pressure placed upon him, but she did decide to prompt him. "There are ways to block your mind completely, but there will always be someone able to break this down. Instead you need to perfect a secondary defence mechanism before you even begin the first." Gently she crouched down before him, head tilted to one side. "Imagine, within your mind, an endless maze. Somewhere that they will find themselves lost within should they try to enter your mind. A forest, the depths of an ocean - whatever you can visualise best, but it must be unending, it must be vast and formidable, else they will break it down. This stops them from ever gaining access to your mind unless you wish them to - or, of course, they manage to break you physically to let your mental down."
Then she stood, waiting for him to attempt it. Like the suppression of his presence this would have to become a continual, subconscious, unbroken process. But this was only one of three layers he had to make, there was so much more to the mental defences she would put in place. He would be here for a very long time this time, as opposed to the standard handful of days. She could not let him head to CIS territory without this being perfected - the Republic had been crumbling for months now, they were less acute in their senses than they had been, especially in comparison to the CIS. No, he had to get this under control.
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