The man in black walked back towards the spear and grabbed it.

"Feels a bit tingly." He said as he watched what seemed like a minuscule amount of electricity run over the entirety of it. It seems she was somehow still running her magic through it and that may have been how she moved it earlier.

Seeing him grab she kicked off the floor but as soon she reached the halfway point between he lobbed it outside of a window.

He then dusted his hands as she approached him.

"Using my weapon might be cheap but getting rid of yours is your own fault."

She didn't care about the words he was saying and launched a blow with all her might behind her into his gut. He narrowly avoided the blow and spun around almost like a ballerina before countering her with a mace-like elbow strike to her head. She tried to shrug off the blow and strike back but he quickly crouched and elbowed her on the gut. Finally, as he was rising he slammed into her with his shoulder and sent her rolling on the ground.

The smoke in the cabin was becoming too much to bear. The entire space was now covered in smoke and there was a noticeable change in the house's temperature.

"Looks like there's no stopping the fire at this point, so my job is complete." He said as he began walking to a window.

Suddenly he started feeling disoriented and looked up to the stairs as he was trying to keep himself standing up.

"Ugh, the third one." He said while looking at the girl in glasses standing at the top of the stairs holding onto the railings.

"Sorry, but I don't have time to play with you." He said before stumbling to a nearby window and trying his best to climb through it.

Tina managed to stand back up and ran to the window but by the time she looked out of it, he was nowhere to be seen.

"Damnit!" She said before slamming her fist into a wall.

The third girl ran downstairs.

"What the hell happened?" She asked.

"That's what I'd like to know!(Surely he wasn't serious about what he said, maybe he's just injured)."

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They were both stunned into silence as Lily came into view dragging something. Her face was in pain and the sweat pooled around her. If she was dragging anything else the scene would have been comical. After dragging it this far she fell on the floor and started breathing heavily. From the looks of things, her hands were both burned.

"Please, his head is still in the kitchen." She said while staring into the inferno she had just escaped.

While the third girl looked confused and seemed to be awaiting some context, Tina bit her lip so hard that she drew blood and ran into the kitchen.

"This isn't real, this isn't real, he's alive I know he is, she was just mistaken, there's no way that bastard would die, even you killed him he'd show up the next day like nothing happened, maybe just fought the first guy he saw and some other adventurer was visiting. That's it, that's what happened last, the bastard probably had someone over and accidentally fell asleep and left with our guest, why the hell would he do something like plus he's responsible for some unrelated person's death how are you gonna sleep at night you lazy bastar-"

His desperate rambling was cut short when she reached the end of the kitchen. Her momentum came to a halt and her mind very briefly went blank.

All that sat on the wooden floor was an object that had been thoroughly burnt by the flames raging there in the cabin. Yet there was one recognizable feature it had that solidified what it was. Though most were burnt off, it seemed to have charred and untouched dreadlocks remaining on it. Even though burning pieces of wood were falling around her, she slowly walked to see the other side of this object. It was a face charred beyond recognition yet that sealed the deal on what it was. A head. And she knew only one person who wore that hairstyle.

She gently picked up the head and smashed her way through a window while making sure to put extra care into maintaining the head.

She circled the cabin to its entrance to see the two other girls nearby.

"Tina! Is it true tha-" She stopped when she saw what Tina had in her hands.

"For the time being, let's get out of here." She said as she handed the charred head to the girl in glasses and headed over to the body. She picked up the body and started walking towards the forest. The glasses girl looked on in shock while Lily silently followed. After having to take in the reality of the situation the girl in the glasses started walking.

After walking for a few minutes helped by the moonlight, they heard the sound of something flying through the air and all stopped. Afterwards, they heard the sounds of footsteps in the parts of the forest that were darker.

"You left something." A voice said.

Tina looked at a tree in front of her and saw a knife sticking into it. It was Ezekiel's.

She gently placed the body on the ground and three of them pressed their backs against one another while trying to keep vigilant of their surroundings. They ended up staying together like this until the sun started to rise and the light penetrated parts of the forest it wasn't able to before.

"You two get some sleep, I don't think it's safe to move just yet." She said while nervously scanning the forest. The two girls obliged and looked for patches of grass to lie down on.

She too was about to fall asleep until her spear landed next to her. She decided to stay awake.