It took a while and a lot of stretching her prior knowledge but she finally understood the notes enough to reverse the affects. Her eyes widening when she felt she’s solved it and she slowly got up and began to look around. Blinking lots moisten her dry and tried eyes as they adjusted for a sight other than a page. When things were back in focus she finally noticed Tamas. It brought a smile to her face, but the sight of the knocked out scientist soured her look quickly and entirely. Leaving disdain clear in her face.
She walked over toward Tamas and placed her hand on his arm.
“Thank you, I knew ye could catch him.” She walked passed him then, standing over the man’s body. He lied between her legs as she crouch down and clasped her hand. Tendrils slithered around his body holding firmly as he shivered in his sleep before a rush of frost ripped him from his dreams. Lumikki’s eyes shined purple as she watched him settle. Giving him the time to grasp the situation. The shadows around her warping to hug and accentuate her form and bring out her crueler appearance.
”What is happening!” The man demanded. It seemed he thought he was still in enough control to ask the questions and this displeased Lumikki tremendously. She nodded to herself as soaked in her frustration and grabbed his face. Her nails like talons on his skin. His eyes finally widened as he understood the kind of danger he was in. His mouth hanging open agape. Lumikki’s black frost creeping from her hands to his face, spreading throughout his features like black flowers flourishing. The fear was at last showing in his eyes.
It was the. Lumikki’s smile returned. Her features soft like an angel draped on darkness. Hardly showing an ounce of cruelty, but one could feel the thick murderous intent. Her body seamlessly rose into the air, her finger beckoning the man to follow her. Her tendrils readjusting him to her liking on eye level and nearly squeezing the breathe out of him.
”Usually some poor idiot would have to snatch you up and force ya to spill the way to turn the man back. Problem for you is, I already read over your notes and I know how to do it myself. The only thing I’m left wondering is how do I hurt you and how much, if even hand ya over.””Bu.. uuu… but you can’t do that!,” he stuttered abysmally. Lumikki rolled her eyes unimpressed.
”You nee…eeed me f..f..for the others doo.. d…don’t you?” Lumikki gabbed the man’s face and focused her frost as his tongue. She cackled at his pained reaction from it being frozen over entirely to the point it could shatter.
“This is your home so you’ve becoming comfortable leaving your scribble about aye? I know men smarter than you I could trust the work to. Don’t worry for a moment that you’re valuable to me. Spend it worrying about how slowly I’ll be killing ya…” True to her word Lumikki pin pointed her frost like an exercise to practice her precision as she froze the man’s appendages and parts before snapping them off and shattering them. The cold numbed the area so that the shock over took him and the frozen gashes couldn’t spill blood so that he would die too soon for her. His tears would freeze on his face as she worked before she took his eyes too.
When he finally passed she finally laid back relived, her anger quelled. She sighed in relief before finally looking back at Tamas.
“I feel sooooo much better now. If ya peep the poor things behind those doors, you’d understand my frustration. I cannot stand someone that could dish cruelty but know not how to take it in return. Aron was just the recent pitiful fool. Aroooon! Come back, let’s get you switched. I want my pet duck already.”Aron had long left the room after Lumikki had started. The chill I’m the room, the overwhelming darkness, and her slow torture was too much for the man….duck to handle. Even as he reentered the room, shivers took over as he was reluctant to even let her hold him.
“Don’t try my patience..” Aron stiffened immediately as to not annoy her further as Lumikki was setting up the mechanism. Refilling out the missing aspects of the magical circles and taking her time to get it right. Once she lined up all the components and items, she chanted the phrase for the cobbled spell causing a flash and reaction to occur. The flash didn’t bother her since she couldn’t be blinded and so she got to see the energies emerge and transfer. Aron was slowly settling back into his body, letting the sensation sink in. Lumikki undid the binds as he did, and he sat up when he could. He could hardly believe he was back, feeling thought his body to confirm it was all intact.
Lumikki reached over and picked up Slush, new and improved for it was full duck now and she stroked her new pet lovingly.
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