The pink hair bent around Jade's fingertip, and her damaged eye tried to replay Ashaiki's death.
Masabi's hand closed around Ashaiki's neck. Bone broke. Ashaiki struck the ground while white fire took Jade's arms and forced the fatal instant backward.
Jade pressed her eyelid shut. The black restraint wire snapped tight around Denna's ruined key and dragged it against the grille.
Ty caught Jade's wrist before the hair cut into her finger.
"Give me the strand before your eye turns that memory into a door."
"Your ribs are already holding one side open, so you stay behind the bell frame."
Jade took two round gauge covers from Toman's workbench, laid Ashaiki's hair between them, and bound the glass with the wire from her torn coat. The strand stopped touching skin. Her eye kept pressing against the lid, but the pull lost enough strength for Denna's key to fall flat.
The Reaper stepped across the lower platform and set its hook behind Ty's injured ribs.
