"What action did they take, to keep watch on those two - that served as such an effective deterrent to the others?" Zechs asked, a little skeptically.

He nodded slightly at the second point, but he kept his opinions to himself. Zechs wasn't going to share his concern about being unarmed, control taken away from him, left relatively helpless and potentially at the mercy of a threat he couldn't counter. How deeply paranoid and anxious that made him. Zechs was determined not to be so helpless for long.