Chapter 44: Gomen
The tips of her shoes were about to be touched by the magma. Mayura lifted her right foot into the air—hoping to stave the inevitable for a few more seconds. The magma pooled around her foot but didn't touch it. It quickly rose higher and higher reaching up to her ankle, but the magma wasn't able to get any closer to her—that was until cylinder-like boundary around her foot began to fail, allowing the magma to sag closer and closer towards her very burnable foot. "Loki..." whispered Mayura lifted her gaze past the Cave of Flames towards the sky she knew was above her. "Loki!" she screamed in anguish. Tears slipped down her face, "gomen..."