It worked: at least in the simplest definition of worked. Her arm bulged, the scent of rot heating up at an exponential pace sweetening the air, and then exploded with a wet burst of flesh and bone. Black blood splattered them all, this time, painting over skin as if marking them, and the hand that had been clutching onto Lloyd's throat wavered, bereft of the arm that had held it steady.
And then it very deliberately let go and fell to the ground with a wet smack, hair building around it and subsuming it within seconds. The death-rattle surrounding them stilled; the hair that had all but cocooned Al in its smothering embrace paused.
Her head turned, wide-eyed gaze locking onto Ed's for the first time, stare furious, as enraged as it was blank. They had all intruded upon her territory, had awoken the spirit whose work it was to share the suffering, and so they would: share.
In an explosion of movement, hair looped upward from the ground, winding into a thick trunk beneath Al as it lifted him clear into the air. Every strand around his body tightened and tightened again, pulsing into a squeeze harsh enough to cut skin.
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And then it very deliberately let go and fell to the ground with a wet smack, hair building around it and subsuming it within seconds. The death-rattle surrounding them stilled; the hair that had all but cocooned Al in its smothering embrace paused.
Her head turned, wide-eyed gaze locking onto Ed's for the first time, stare furious, as enraged as it was blank. They had all intruded upon her territory, had awoken the spirit whose work it was to share the suffering, and so they would: share.
In an explosion of movement, hair looped upward from the ground, winding into a thick trunk beneath Al as it lifted him clear into the air. Every strand around his body tightened and tightened again, pulsing into a squeeze harsh enough to cut skin.