Vella prepared only one thread because anything larger would become an attack. She sat outside the nullstone shell with her Spirit Ring visible around Hajin's finger.
Ferra opened a maintenance channel, and Vella extended a strand of neutral mana through it while the thread followed the child's existing circulation without a healing command until the answering force revealed itself.
The child watched from behind the soul membrane with both hands tangled in her hair. Hajin remained outside her direct sight while Divine Eye observed the reaction through Vella's contact.
Golden circulation reached the first extraction needle and forced the demonic core half a finger's width away from its seat before Vella severed her own thread.
The movement still sent pain through the child as her body folded around the displaced core while black channels pulled it back with a wet pulse, and she closed both hands against her lap instead of begging for another current.
