"Did you say something, Miss?"
The man's voice echoed against the metallic pipes with a mild ring.
It startled her back to the present.
Her eyes blinked slowly as she turned towards him.
"What?" She said, her tone dripped with the lingering trails of the venom.
The man flinched.
" I-I heard you speak, Miss. I apologise if I was wrong."
Without speaking further, he continued with his task.
Still, they remained unmoved. Unresponsive to his constant tug and pull.
It baffled her for a moment, but she let the man continue.
Timing was perfect in cases like this, and her line of thought was riddled with other mysteries.
What put them in their state though, had been a wonder to her since she found them.
She even went as far as to inspect their bodies. Signs of mana injection, physical trauma, and mental breakdown.