[Well that's awful. The sight of this guy fills Rean with a mix of rage and revulsion and no small amount of terror. His urge is to attack him but he knows his body won't, so he sits frozen, breathing shallowly and feeling like a coward for the way his voice is caught in his throat, for the way he feels tiny and helpless and impotent.

But he can raise a protest at the way Gaius is treated, though his voice sounds kind of wavery even to himself. ]

He didn't deserve that, he was just helping me. Or do you want me to fail here?

[Maybe even that small amount of defiance is really stupid but he's not ready to watch someone else get mistreated because of him without saying something.]