"This isn't right," Stark forced out, gritting his teeth. "What is this?" Whether he said it only in his mind or whether his body echoed the sentiment he couldn't be sure.

And then he was being squeezed too tightly and it was too cold and everything was wrong and his body certainly let out a strangled noise. Loud enough to be noticed by the others in the room, certainly.

Did the glow from his unmasked face flicker or was that merely a trick of the light?