Agent Caits threw up her hands to protect her eyes from the blazing light, wondering if this was what the sun would seem like close up, and glad she would never find out. She wondered if her cornea's were burned, but didn't open her eyes. 

Cody's head tilted towards Agent Dioxides voice, but right then the young man could not connect the voice to ally, and it seemed for a moment that he would lash out at the agent, but then his name was spoken. He pondered for a moment, teetering on an edge. 

He did not have a choice. It was either stop his attack, or let the motivators kill them. He swayed slightly, and seemed on the verge of passing out, yet he gathered his strength, and seemed to weave light into what could only be described as a prison around the motivators, deliberately making it small so that if they moved they would be burned by the bars of light. 

The rooms light dimmed, and the glow faded from Cody's skin, his eyes losing the shine they had obtained. His clothes appeared unharmed by the light, and he rocked back onto the balls of his feet. He swallowed around a throat suddenly raw and dry. 

[centre]'I'm sorry'[/centre] 

It was barely a whisper, the dark circles under his eyes seemed to be as deep as craters, and as dark as a raccoon's. His normally pale skin was almost transparent. He looked towards the sound of the voice