Don't Judge, This was the Only Way

Not Dumphree looked uncomfortable in his meat suit. He looked at me with pupil less eyes and had all the unnatural movement of someone who clearly has never been a human before. We were out of the portal, I hadn't yet asked of Aelanes because I wanted to make sure I was free before bringing up my companion we had left behind (yes I'm a selfish dick like that).

"Feels awful, how do you people deal with this?" The voice was weird, like deep and hollow at the same time, like the creature couldn't properly work vocal chords, so it didn't really try.

"Little bits at a time, eventually you don't even feel the weaknesses of the human condition." The creature scoffed.

"Well now that I'm out here I won't need this anymore." It attempted to free itself and failed, like I could see it straining magically to be out of Dumphree and every attempt was not successful.

"So here is where we talk about my friend back in your horrific portal." Not Dumphree looked at me with a pure burning hatred. It attempted to use its powers but those also wouldn't work.

"What did you do to me?"

"I let you out with some caveats of course, your powers and your essence are stuck in that meat suit. Don't even think of killing yourself as that will just damage the body without freeing you, you aren't alive in that thing, you exist in it, it is your new prison." It tried to strangle me, but it had a limited ability to use a body and so it was easy to parry and I hit him in the solar plexus which dropped him to the ground in a lump.

"What do you want to free me?"

"Aelanes out of your portal." The creature walked back in and then came back out with Aelanes who looked visibly shaken but no other worse for ware.

"Release me." I grabbed one of Aelanes's pistols and shot the creature in the head, it fell to the ground and then I shoved it back into the portal and then slammed the vault door shut.

"Do I want to know?" Aelanes seemed off, but I let it go because I'd been in that exact position.

"Nope you don't, lets cover this shit up and get out of here." And so we did, because why deal with a situation when you can just lock it back in a vault and hope to never have it be a problem ever again. Which I will trumpet was my original solution!