Instantly, everyone's heads whipped around toward the only possible source of that crack: Patient Zero's frozen body. They could all imagine how she had remained mostly fine and was now breaking free from the icy imprisonment to tear them all apart and eat Blizzard like a starved wolf.
Instead…
The layer of ice around Patient Zero cracked and crumbled. Like a corpse dropping out of an open and upright coffin, Patient Zero fell to the ground with no strength to even brace herself. She was not going to tear even a fly's wings apart, much less them. She had been defeated.
Zach and Violina exchanged glances before looking at the seemingly asleep Blizzard. Zach looked at Patient Zero. He could feel her gaze on him, and he could see her lips move as she tried to say something.
Zach's expression was unreadable as he ignored his familiars' warning looks and walked over to Patient Zero, kneeling next to her.
