Seraphina's POVI squeezed harder and his windpipe collapsed under my thumbs with a soft crunch that I felt all the way up my arms. His legs kicked under me, heels dragging lines in the dirt, and his back arched and his hands stopped pulling at my wrists and started clawing at the air and his face went from red to purple to a dark color that didn't have a name.His eyes bulged and the whites turned red where the blood vessels burst and his mouth was open and nothing was coming out anymore, not a sound, not a breath, and I held on and watched the life drain out of him the way water drains out of a cracked cup, slow and steady and then all at once.His body jerked once under me and then it stopped and the flat empty eyes that had watched me bleed in a barn went flat and empty for the last time.I held on for ten more seconds. I counted them. Then I let go and his head dropped sideways into the dirt and I stood up and my hands were shaking and the silver light on my fingers was brighter
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