"The situation now? I have something you deem valuable. If you try to kill me, you will kill her. She's more of a safeguard than anything else. I won't be the one to pull the trigger that ends her life. I'm presenting you with a choice. You either pull your trigger thus ending both my life and hers, or you don't pull the trigger and all of us live. Either way, you're at a disadvantage. You lose your pet, or you let the leader of a rebellion live."
He heard shouting from down the hall. It'd still take a minute or so for them to get here, but the moment of truth was at hand. Was this Davor truly as attached to the avian girl as Zech hoped?
His vision began to blur. His grip on the girl nearly weakened, but he refocused himself and snapped back to consciousness, using the chip to aid his efforts.