Since the last encounter of Edgar and Amelia in the jail's cell, Edgar is still feeling sore in his throat because of how he kept screaming at the top of his lungs when he was calling out Amelia trying to get more information about Claudius but the princess just ignored him and left which is why he hurt his Vocal cords.
With every day he spends chained to the ceiling, he gets more and more drained of energy and his will to live slowly fading while his desire to just give up and let death take him away increasing.
After his first week here, he cried… He cried for the first time in years. He cried his heart out because of how helpless, worried and scared he was when he imagined what could have happened to Claudius and his entire kingdom.
