Kai is curled up in the corner, his knees pulled to his face, his hands chained together in front of him with vengestone. He’s internally kicking himself for getting caught, but his hatred for Krux deepens as he wonders what he’s doing to Lloyd. His thoughts are answered when the man comes into the room, holding Lloyd in his arms.
Krux sets Lloyd down onto his cot gently, and comes over to Kai.
He yanks Kai’s arm forward and takes off the cuffs. Kai rubs his wrists as he feels the fire returning to him. Before he can even try to attack Krux, the man is gone, and the door slams shut.
Kai’s attention turns to Lloyd.
Kai lights a small fire in the palm of his hand in order to see as the room is nearly pitch black.
Kai: Lloyd! Lloyd are you okay?
The young Garmadon cracks his eyes open, before turning away from Kai.
Kai frowns but is not deterred. He grabs Lloyd’s arm, causing Lloyd to struggle.
Kai: come on I just want to see-
Lloyd’s eyes are burning red and green energy flows from his fingertips, cutting Kai over the eyebrow. Kai grabs at his eye, causing his fire to go out. Lloyd, once he realizes what he did, and can’t see Kai, starts to cry.
Kai, with one eye open, uses his right hand to light a new flame to get a look at Lloyd, and wraps his left arm over lloyd’s shoulder. Bringing the two closer and stopping Lloyd’s sobbing, but the tears are still flowing.
Kai: it’s something my mom and sister do. If they focus really hard on someone they can see what their soul looks like.
Kai: you don’t know what a soul is?
Lloyd looks away sheepishly.
Kai: well it’s um... it’s you. I think that’s how my mom said it. It shows how strong you are.
Kai: I guess you can’t see them then huh?
Lloyd blinks a couple of times, but decides to focus on Kai’s display of power, his fire. he tries to touch it.
Lloyd places his hand in Kai’s fire. Kai moves his hand away immediately but when he gets a better look at Lloyd’s hand, along with the rest of his wounds. Bandaids all over his neck and wrists, bandages wrapped around his leg where the snakes had cut him, but his hands, his hands were both blistered from when Kai transformed and Lloyd tried to use him. There were no burn marks from Lloyd’s recent stunt.
Lloyd’s eyes are still closed. When he opens them the world is a black void, but he sees a red angry looking blob right in front of him, but it calms down once it looks at Lloyd more. It moves forward, seemingly swallowing Lloyd whole.
When Lloyd blinks, he sees that Kai is now hugging him.
“I’ll protect you. I promise.”