In The Eyes Of Another: Resurrection

Chapter 3: Beijing~

Dana dropped to the floor and her eye blanked out - completely white.

"Dana!" I yelled, hoping that she would somehow awake. I gripped the blue krait attached to her arm by the head, pulled it out and crushed it.

At my alarmed cry Pyralis had stopped searching Jared's clothes and noticed the snakes. She held her palm out and the air rippled. All the snakes slumped and disintegrated. I have got to learn that.

"No pulse," she noticed.

"She was bitten by a blue krait," I reported, holding up the snake in my hand as reference before she dusted it. "Less than a minute ago."

"She has time left, but it's slipping. And rather quickly too."

"Could we try the extracting spell?" When she looked doubtful, I rushed into persuasion, "It takes about a minute for the venom to completely shut her down and I've executed the spell in 20 seconds with dad. Please."

Her eyes narrowed. "Alright," she consented. "But we can't stop time and we have to work fast. Do you understand?"

"Absolutely." She nods and we begin.

We extended our hands across Dana's body. I looked at Pyralis. She nodded. We started chanting in Latin and time slowed to a minute a second.

a sanguine in his venis omnis impuritas extrahe

a sanguine in his venis omnis impuritas extrahe

a sanguine in his venis omnis impuritas extrahe

We chanted for the full minute as Pyralis placed her hands against Dana's neck, then her forehead, her shoulders, her elbows, abdomen, wrists, knees, ankles, and finally they hovered steadily above Dana's heart. When the minute was up Dana still hadn't awoken.

"Dana," I whispered. She didn't stir.

"Dana!" Pyralis shook her.

I pulled Dana out of her grasp. "Hey! Hands off of her."

"I'm only trying to help, Kaine."

"Yeah, like that's going to do any good." I gestured to Dana with my head. Her eye was still open, still blank.

Pyralis stood and returned to Jared's clothes.

"What exactly are you looking for? And who was that guy?"

"I am not looking for anything exactly, just anything that might help. So I guess you could say," she paused to look closer at something, "that I'm looking for something obscurely." She held up a small metallic object and winked at me.

"What's that?"

"The queen." She shifted her hold on the object so that her fingers no longer hid any part of it. It was a chess piece - the queen, apparently. I had never learned to play chess and never intended to.

"It's a chess piece - so what?"

"It's not just any chess piece - it's the chess piece that's going to get you out of here."

"Well, is there a chess piece that can bring my girlfriend back? Because that's the one that would help the most right now."

Pyralis coughed loudly and pointedly looked at my arms. I looked down to see Dana with her hair back in place smiling up at me.

"Bring your girlfriend back from what?" she whispered.

I grinned in relief and leaned down to kiss her when Pyralis cleared her throat.

"Sorry to break up the happy couple, but we need to move," she said with a less biting voice than usual. "Dana, can you walk?"

Dana shifted a little in my lap before answering, "I don't feel like I shouldn't be able to."