There's a word caught in his head when he looks at her. She lifts her mask and he's ensnared by her gaze. Trapped.
It is the right thing to say. Her face lights up and she approaches him swiftly. He doesn't even flinch away from what should be a hostile native. He doesn't want to.
"Hordak! Glimmer said they did something to you, and your eyes, they're—different. What happened?"
His throat catches. He feels that yawning void of knowledge keenly. He doesn't want to disappoint her. "I don't know."
She takes hold of one of his hands with hers. Even through her gloves, she feels warm. He feels warm.
Instead of happy, now she just appears concerned. "Do you—Do you remember me, really?"
"I—" Something strange is happening to his eyes. They sting, and his vision is blurring.
She is dismayed. "Oh no. Don't do that. I don't know what to—" She appears to come to a decision and abruptly embraces him.
He should kill her, he knows. Capture her, at the very least. He shouldn't just stand here clutching this creature to him like she's something vital.
He doesn't want to leave this, to go back to experiencing only the burning humiliation of his inferiority again and again and again until he dies. He doesn't feel inferior here. He feels wanted.
A burst of weapons fire echoes toward them from a distant chamber. She pulls away, and he sees that her eyes are glistening and the skin around them is reddened and slightly swollen. She grabs his arms above the elbows, and excitement creeps into her voice. "Do you want to get away from them?"
She smiles once more. "Do you want help?"
His mind races alongside his pulse. "How?"
She proves very adept at quickly rigging things to explode.
She shoves all of her tools and a few bizarre crystals into pockets of her overalls and regards the console sadly as she steps away. "A shame, but I guess I'd learned all I could from it anyway." She turns to him. "Leave whatever you want them to find, and let's hurry. We've got about three minutes."
Without hesitation, he drops his weapon and pulls off a pauldron. She'd asked if he was equipped with some kind of tracking device, but he hadn't been able to tell her that he is so expendable—as are all his brethren, really—that there would be no point in a tracking system. He'd just told her "no" and left it at that.
He moves to leave via the same doorway he used to enter the chamber initially, but she tugs him the other way with her hair. "Nah, this way's better. C'mon."
She leads hastily him through a maze of chambers, supporting him with her hair without a word when he swiftly begins to stumble.
A loud boom echoes through the whole structure. Distant shouts follow. She brings them to a stop before a large, sealed door and immediately begins brandishing tools at the panel alongside it. In mere seconds, she has the door open, and together they're treading out into the sunlight.
They push for the cover of the nearby trees, and a staticky voice calls from her pocket. "Entrapta? Entrapta, come in!"
She—Entrapta pulls out the device and answers back, "I'm here, Bow! Did you get out OK?"
The device catches a moment of heavy breath and rustling movement before the reply. "Yeah, barely! Did you?"
Entrapta's hair moves restlessly. "Yes. Where are you?"
"I'm headed back to where we left Swiftwind. Can you meet me there?"
"Sure!" She turns to look at him with a grin. "And I'm bringing a friend."