The silence left was suffocating as Kira immediately got to work.
With swift movements, the bar gates flung open, and her footsteps bounced against the walls as she approached the man whose life hung barely by a thread.
Her gaze barely met his lifeless ones, and her fingers had begun to scan through the clubs that bound him.
The silence stretched out long… and her delicate control of mana had begun to stretch out into a thin diffuse amount of mana on her fingertips.
It hummed with life as she placed it at his chest, and slowly… and without a thought, cut through it.
"aaaAAAARGGGH!"
His response was immediate, and the stifled groan that escaped… loud, yet weakened was a visceral cry for the pain that surged through his body.
The heat from the diffuse mana had easily cut through his skin and reached into it. Beneath the stack of dried flesh and crisp skin, where the creatures scurried for safety from the sudden intrusion.
