John curses inwardly. It's something at least, but not quite worth the piercing migraine. However, he does seem to catch on to what his compatriots are up to. "Sir, we are trying," he adds, voice soft but certainly loud enough for the Bothan to hear, and with a distinctly imploring and placating tone. "The traitor will be found, but we need the hunter to do that, liege."

Axis has been choked before, really choked, by the Jedi he used to hunt, and makes an appropriate gasping, gagging noise. If anyone ever claimed he wasn't an actor, they were crazy or lying.