However, the two sisters did not have to worry that long about how they would be dealing with being trapped within their metallic bodies as their consciousnesses did not merge with the 'mountain' or the ground. They just both went silent at the same time as only things on their minds before doing so happened to the sole fact that they were still holding hands after everything that happened.
However, this took some time to pass within the white void that the twins all of sudden found themselves in. It was not actually reality itself but more a soul space where their souls had been transported to. Back in reality in where their bodies still were they were huddled in the corner of the room holding hands while looking directly at each other. The looks of concern and/or worry were no longer present on their faces. They stood there on their knee one hand hanging loose at their side while the other was firmly in the grasp of the other sibling's.
People, seemingly more native to this world, then started coming into the room and through a process of elimination started going through all the statues that were once all the people that were summoned to this world for this very purpose.
"How come no one is trying those two over there as they seemed to be rather interesting," one of the people said.
"Yeah let's go over there as they might not even be two weapons but a single one given how they seem to be just a single statue rather than two linked together," another said
Kate and Lina were unique as the smelting and forging process their bodies had just gone through was one to strip all the things deemed unneeded leaving their souls, which contain the power they could not use nor even dream of mastering properly, in the form of a weapon. Their bodies and minds however would be just empty shells that now contained the weapon within.
The reason Kate and Lina were unique was because they were actually two truly linked together as a single piece rather than just two that just so happened to be linked together at the time. Pairs thought that if they were holding one another even if they were transformed into something not human anymore. The fact that they were holding on to each other would make it so that they could not be separated. In theory that should have worked but in reality that was rarely the case though as it did not matter if their bodies were holding onto one another as that proved to be futile. What this merely led to in most cases were just two statues holding onto one another and nothing more than that. What happened then was that when their statue shell was cracked revealing the weapon inside it was just a singular weapon within.
Holding onto someone else body did nothing for it was their very souls themselves that were being smelted and forged into weapons. Their souls were not touching thus their actions were not effective in the slightest in most cases. Those who did somehow manage to connect their souls would not have liked the outcome of this as they became either a singular weapon that can split into two and/or a pair of weapons.
It did not matter who it was as they could have been the closest of friends, long time lovers, or even a close knit family. Those connections did not exist anymore between anyone who was put through the smelting process as all connections and all bonds were removed by the process their bodies were put through. Not even the shells of their body could be analyzed to prove family were once related at all.
So they could end up with owners that would become bitter rivals, the worst of enemies, or even be used repeatedly to battle against each other in betrayal after betrayal. It would not matter as they were mere property and thus would just do as is expected of the property after all.
Kate and Lina were unique cases also for another reason as well when all the others that could be claimed were (not everyone could complete the needed process to get the weapon their souls had been turned into).
"What the deal with these two as I was sure I would have at least been able to get one of them," a person said.
"I know the man as that guy literally tried to put his foot up their ass for rejecting him only for it is shattered by it instead" another commented.
As the said person was being carried away on a stretcher continuing to hurl curses at them as he was.
This entire time the two of them were just standing there in the corner of the summoning circle holding hands. The only remaining intact statues were amongst the pile of rubble that all the others that were once a part of their group had become. Their souls that had been converted into weapons were not in the possession of their new owners. Yet what lurked with the twin's diamond like shells remained a mystery to everyone.
After all, if no one turned out to be chosen by them then they couldn't know what kind or type of weapon they had become. The type and variety would change as while there were overall types that souls would be turned into with that allowing there to be categories and educated guesses based on past the previous example and subjects. Each one was vastly different in every other way. Just because two souls were smelted into become two different swords. The only thing they would have in common would be that they are swords and nothing else at all.