However, the time for the general's plan was rapidly creeping closer, and Lucy still showed no signs of returning to Toz and the other cats. Toz managed to suppress his worries at first, but he couldn't help but be filled with anxiety as he couldn't even contact Lucy. And he hadn't gotten a word from Lucy for quite a while.
The only thing that comforted Toz was that he could tell that Lucy was still alive. But he couldn't tell what state Lucy was in wherever he was. Toz didn't know whether Lucy was thriving and didn't return because he didn't need to or if he was hanging on to his life by a thread and didn't return because he physically couldn't. And he didn't communicate because some kind of magic blocked the bond's connection.
Their imprisonment in the maximum-level security prison that Dyra and Yill put them in proved that it was possible to hinder an inclination's magic. If it could happen once, it could happen again.
