She had every right to be angry. She had every right to hate him with all she could, and whilst already felt a writhing guilt for what he had done, restraining her seemed even worse. Lying to her, and when, though her own accord Delirium had discovered the truth he was forced to restrain her, clutching her wrists though firmly, though he could not find it within himself to be too forceful with the distressed girl.

He couldn’t apologise again. She didn’t want to hear any of that, he’d already apologised so often it seemed useless now, all he could do was to was stop her from actually hurting herself in her thrashing anger. Her kicks caught his shin on the left and he winced. “Delirium ..you must calm down.” He felt utterly useless in the situation, everything he said was useless at least, and he was sure all he could do would be to restrain her until her hysteria had faded enough that she could be taken to her home.