"There is a bit of resistance you can put up against it," he admitted, shrugging slightly. "But you have to know that it's happening beforehand. Otherwise, it's rather hard."

He was slightly ashamed to admit that he was considerably weaker than he could have been. He so often ended up just giving in and letting his emotions have the better of him. Of course, he'd been there so long, sometimes he wondered if he wasn't just entirely mad anyway.