I cannot read her mind, and my methods of making her speak are gruesome, which I do not mind deploying.

(it's simply a fact, nothing big, nothing unexpected - for him, at least.)

If that is not a route we want to go through, I can help take her.

(that feeling of having someone nearby, a presence in the room, is simply gone. he retains his aura within his body. he can be seen, but he looks unreal, as if not even there to begin with.)