Ayen had expected that the pain would be too much and braced himself for it. Khal and Devion would not react like that if they were not concerned about it.
Only when he finally went through the wavelength extraction did Ayen understand their worries.
If he thought the pain of the curse counterattacking him for guiding Devion was already so much for him to handle, then this was on another level.
Unlike with physical ones, there was no anesthesia to lessen the pain. Ayen felt it firsthand, vivid and blunt. Devion's description was correct.
The feeling of your wavelength being extracted was like your soul was being pulled out. Ayen could not even think of anything else and focused his mind on enduring such excruciating pain.
Wavelengths were very sensitive, and they did not have a physical form in some sense. The way it had to be extracted was not something Ayen could comprehend, nor was he interested.
