Duo was about to correct him, to say that some of them could claw and scratch if the person they were trying to grab put up too much resistance, but the next words out of his friend's mouth made it an entirely moot point.

Damn...

He tensed, just barely looking over his shoulder but suddenly very, very still. He could try to run, but as much as he had explored the castle he would still wind up running blind in the storm sooner or later. He couldn't take that risk. He had to see what Heero's first move was going to be.

"Am I now? Tch," he scoffed, "Shoulda known he got to you too. So what'd the bastard do, huh? Couldn't do what he did to Haku so, what, you're like him now?"