Evelyn felt Lucia's hand closing around her neck, and her throat felt like it was being crushed by a vice.
She could not get any air into her lungs, and she felt her mind slipping as the blood flow was cut off by the pressure around her neck.
Just moments ago, she had felt ready to end her own life in order to protect her friends and siblings from the tragedies that always seemed to follow in her wake.
Yet, as Lucia strangled the life out of her, Evelyn could not help but instinctually want to live.
In a struggle to survive her magical energy flared up once more and her body went ablaze with crimson fire.
Following the flames, the area around her began to tremble and the ground began to ground began to compress into itself as the gravity in the area became several times greater than normal.
Lucia smiled at this development and leapt back outside the range of Evelyn's desperate, but powerful attack.
