Brandon's chest heaved and his vision blurred as he barely managed to lift his bloodied head from the dust.
Pain was throbbing in every nerve and his leg was twisted, his ribs likely cracked.
Yet his trembling fingers clung desperately to the mobile device he took from his storage ring and that is his only chance of calling Elize, or Charlotte, or anyone.
His thumb hovered over the screen.
But then-
CRUNCH.
A sound like snapping wood echoed through the air as Lingsha's heel stomped down right onto his hand.
"GAHHHHH-!!" Brandon let out a loud scream.
The bones in his right hand shattered instantly beneath the weight of her power.
His fingers crumpled like paper and blood sprayed out from between her heel and his ruined flesh, torn muscles and tendons squelching beneath the brutal pressure.
The mobile device slipped from his grasp, flickering, tumbling uselessly to the side as the emergency call failed to go through.
