He wasn't used to being so helpless, had never known the sonic blaster to have no effect at all, and he had a split-second when he just stood there staring at the creature and then a bloodstained hand was at his throat and he was lifted and slammed into the wall and pain exploded up his back, the pyramid creature very close to him, almost suffocating him, and he could barely breathe and his vision was blurring but he could make out something written on the wall across, two years, and he tried to focus on the words, tried not to think about the pain or the dizziness or the body slick with blood pressed up against his own.