Blackbeak Bluff you got yourself in a dangerous zone

Whatever it was that Akantha had found held her rapt attention. Unfortunatly, it did not hold it long. She turned back to Whip and looked at him with a sinister smirk. The drudge did not know how to react. At least, not immediatly. He held his tongue and lowered his head, ears falling flat against his scalp in an immediate display of deference. The conditioning of the Nereides had filled most of the blanks in Whip's mind. So much so that he nearly did not have to think for himself in any instance. He simply fell back to the conditioning and repeated whatever he was told.

And if he did it enough, he would believe it himself. Just as he had already begun.

But, wasn't that what the siren's wanted from him? Blind obediance? Whip did not truly know. "I told you before. I have nowhere else to go," he explained. It was a slightly better elaboration. "I don't have anything to go back to. This is all I have."