"Before," Eichel emphasizes. Heine is still backing up, aware that he's still dripping, despite everything, and it makes him feel filthy and weak all at once. The sensation of something foreign inside his body is just familiar enough to shake him into movement.

He needs to get out of here. Whatever this situation is—he needs to get out of it.

But his memories aren't completely back yet. Heine doesn't remember being put under the Imperius Curse, or how it had happened, and he turns his back again as he reaches for the doorknob.

Eichel takes initiative because he sees that Jade won't.

"Imperio." Without much of a pause he turns his attention back to Jade, even as Heine slumps to his knees on the ground by the door, which is just cracked open, his hand still on the handle.

"Why didn't you stop him?"