"..."
Helair watched her with a smile that never reached the flesh, while Agares was already so furious her heart was about to rupture as she prepared to speak again—but in the next instant, her figure collapsed, from neck, limbs, down to her lower abdomen, all severed at once.
Her head, halted mid‑word, flew down and thudded onto the ground, rolled countless times, then, still frozen in an expression of utmost shock and terror, was dragged back through illusory dawn‑light to hover before Helair.
"You..."
Bearing the name of Agares' "Curiosity," she had not even realized what had struck her, what kind of attack had carved these wounds into her. She was only hauled by the dawn‑light, furious, to Helair's feet, where she heard Helair's soft voice open,
"...At a time like this you're still clinging to your own nature, thinking that if you enrage me I'll put on a display of power you've never seen before?"
