I've never heard of a gift that can do this... and even if they could I don't see why they'd use it as a punishment. Sort of defeats the purpose of...

[ But really, it makes a sort of sense. He suspects that if she can be killed, being linked to her when it happened would be... he doesn't even want to think about it.

So if they get the two of them all tied up with each other, bound like... oh, ew, almost like mates only worse... and then they take it away in the most brutal way possible. Yeah, that'd be a punishment all right.

But pretty wasted on a bit player like himself. Aro's got Demetri, the best tracker in the world. There is no reason to waste this much energy on Alistair. ]