Cyclonis strode over, feet pattering against the metal floor.
"Look how far you've fallen." She knelt beside him, hand on his plate-less chest. Keeping him down. She held up the magenta crystal. He noticed, for the first time, the golden core which shimmered at the center of the stone. The color of her eyes.
"She didn't scream, you know. Went in like a true soldier. But...perhaps..." She ran her finger down the side of his cheek. He shuddered. "Perhaps I saw a tear."
"You bitch," he repeated.
She snarled and pulled out the other crystal.
He automatically flinched away.
She pressed it to his neck.
His world exploded in pain.