Cullen's right hand found Tyra's left wrist.
The ice coating in direct contact with the wrist that was generating the chain. The cold conducted immediately—not through a chain intermediary, directly, skin to ice coating to skin, the fastest temperature transfer of the entire fight arriving at the wrist that needed to be free to control the chain.
Tyra felt the cold on her wrist.
Not painful—not damaging, not the structural freeze that Cullen's encasement produced on joints. Surface level. Her wrist was not losing function. But the wrist that controlled the left chain was cold and the cold was present and the chain that connected to it was cold and the cold between the controlling wrist and the controlled chain was now a continuous temperature environment rather than two separate cold elements.
The left chain's precision dropped to seventy percent.
The right chain—unwrapped from Cullen's arm as his forward drive had freed it—swept toward her right wrist.
