It take five guardsmen in the end to hold Carlisle prostrate and still manage to move him to the main chambers of the Three, Carlisle not screaming, but talking, speaking all the while. They will hear him -- even if they would not let him go.

"Blind servants of the Three who do not question what they are told with the minds that survived their deaths - I kill your kin and you take me to Them instead to follow orders instead of taking me yourselves -- "

And under even the bravado there is a clenching of addled terror, of Please don't take me back to Them you can kill me here I won't mind just don't take me back --