When the Phantom grabbed him, Gansey made a startled noise, but allowed his hand to be pushed without any kind of fight. His heart was pounding from the possibility of almost losing a hand.

"That would be," he said sadly, "a fitting punishment for an insolent prisoner, don't you think?" There was only so much he could do to reach out. If he was a prisoner, it was for the best that he started being treated like one, outside of being kept from his home. Otherwise, the ache in his heart every time he was rebuffed would only continue to get stronger.