Shim cut Milo open with one hand, while using the other to draw spell formations that kept the blood out of the way. From what Alec could see, the spell formations also served to keep Milo alive. It was similar to putting him on life support.
Shim's consideration for Milo's survival would have kept Alec's rage in control if not for the fact that Shim was playing around. He had no idea what he was doing.
He was just poking around and looking about inside Milo's torso like he was checking for worms in the most barbaric way possible. There was no rhyme, reason, or method to Shim's madness. He was blindly fumbling for anything that had anything to do with Milo's monsterification.
Alec wanted to tear his shackles off and tear Shim apart. A loud voice was telling him to do just that, starting with the shackle around his stump.
But a silent voice in the back of his mind reminded him of two things.
