Thunk. Thunk. The sound was sickening, but the pain was worse. Ora let out a small scream as the bolts hit her back and shoulder, piercing her small body easily. Pain shot through her like electricity, her nerves screaming. Violet eyes welled and spilled over while her bottom lip was bit between her teeth.
“What?!” Ora felt herself loosing control of her own body, the pain was subsiding, but her fingers were falling numb, she couldn’t grasp Mao’s collar properly, she wouldn’t be able to release her. Her chest went from rising and falling at such a rapid pace to slowing, the pace was similar to that of when she was asleep. The bolts quickly poisoned her small body doubly as fast as it should, thanks to the two bolts.
The back of her white dress began to spread the red like a fungus, growing from the center of the bolts across her back until the two pools touched. Her back was warm and sticky from the fluid, her mind was numb, Ora knew that her situation was not a good one. But, Mao was safe. Mao’s child was safe. Her hands fell from Mao’s neck, her eyes locked onto the green ones before her. “Keep him safe.” Her fingers brushed Mao’s stomach as the Konti dropped to her knees, falling onto her side with a small, solid noise. Her eyes could only see Mao’s feet and then beyond the woman.
Violet eyes watched as Mao lowered herself to the ground next to the weak Konti, Ora felt relived; no harm would come to this woman. Ora’s eyelids felt heavy, the poison reaching for every muscle held within her small frame. Unwillingly, the Konti let her eyes close, her body was entirely limp from the poison, she had no choice in the matter, she was going with her assailant.
The Konti silently prayed to Avalis as well as Laviku, praying for that if death were to claim her body, to let her spirit reunite with her mother one last time.