"Lovely." was all Erica said before leaving the room, the door closing with more of a snap than it had before, it seemed.

As soon as she was gone, Hal looked to Hazel and brought his hand up, fingers together.

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She fought as best she could, but it really hadn't been hard for them to drag her down, even without the elven mana.

She was sitting, bound to the floor beneath her. She was forced to stay on her knees, and scrunched down a bit.

She had what seemed to be nothing but rags on. Even her arm was uncovered, but didn't seem to have any sort of effect any longer.

She also didn't have the strength to fight any longer, hadn't for a long time.

♫Born of graves and left below ♪ Painted ashes, painted snow♫

She didn't respond, but that wasn't surprising. The dark skinned woman in the room had made sure she wouldn't be able to.

"Of course she was easy." The aforementioned woman stated simply.

"Especially since we have that demon. Her mana was extremely useful for this." She added, pushing herself off of the wall she had been leaning against.

"Because we both know that it would not have been possible to take advantage of that link, and manipulate the mana of the markings, quite as well otherwise."

♫Born of graves and left below ♪ Painted ashes, painted snow♫

She rolled her eyes.

"Good. If you didn't fuck it up again, perhaps I'll give you something in return." She stated simply before looking at the one she was in there with.

"Azari, would you care to join me?" She asked

♫Born of graves and left below ♪ Painted ashes, painted snow♫

She was silent before shrugging.

"Tend to the demon." she stated, her voice cold, and uncaring.

That was all she said as well, knowing that he'd likely not be doing so well after that task.

♫Born of graves and left below ♪ Painted ashes, painted snow♫

There was silence for a few seconds before the one that was walking away found him incapable of moving, for no reason at all.

"Who gave you permission to address me so casually?" The womans voice asked, venom in her tone.

Along with a lack of patience, and as if she was speaking with a child.

♫Born of graves and left below ♪ Painted ashes, painted snow♫

She hadn't even turned to face him, before bringing a hand up, crimson mana swirling around it.

"You better hope that you did not destroy my lunch - again."

"Now make yourself useful, before I deem you useless." She snapped before heading off, her mana lingering as she walked off, before it zoomed for him.

It was going to make sure he'd regret it, if he fucked up.

♫Born of graves and left below ♪ Painted ashes, painted snow♫

She just sighed.

"Depends on his time." She answered.

"Truly does." She added, knowing he'd realize what it was that she was saying. She couldn't be too obvious, after all.

♫Born of graves and left below ♪ Painted ashes, painted snow♫

Her molten red eyes seemed to be far more ablaze than usual, but at the same time... it was well known that they hadn't beaten the spice out of her entirely. Plus the elves mana wasn't quite as effective on her as it was on everyone, and everything, else.

"Ah, hello." She greeted before smirking.

"Sent her mutt, huh?" She asked, her voice almost cool, calm. There was pain there, and it was the only thing that was getting in the way at the moment.

Of course, that's ignoring the fact that she couldn't get out of there, and she was bound a wall. That was not comfortable after all.

♫Born of graves and left below ♪ Painted ashes, painted snow♫

Lilim just laughed.

"ah. All right then." She stated.

"Not that I can expect a toy to understand what's going on here." She added.

"What are yoi going to do?" She asked, some confidence to her voice.

"You're a freak of nature. How the hell can you hope to do anything to me?" She asked with a laugh. "So tell me. What are you going to do?"

♫Born of graves and left below ♪ Painted ashes, painted snow♫

Lilim just laughed after everything started to work properly again.

"Oh! That was fun!" She exclaimed, although the pain was definitely still in her voice.

"I did not know you retained your time fuckery mana." She commented.

"Knew you used to have, didn't know you still have."

♫Born of graves and left below ♪ Painted ashes, painted snow♫