[Maybe he's just used to pressing the point, but at least he seems to believe it -- Mikleo doesn't look hurt, and it's as he says, they just can't move. That's... not that bad, really, when it comes down to it.]
I wonder what's keeping us here. It has to be for a reason! Maybe-- [And again, the rest of the sentence gets swallowed, though this time in music that somehow starts to swell up around them -- real, or in their heads? Who knows. But it's certainly there, music like you'd probably hear in court or in one of the big formal celebrations they've read about in books.]