What followed was a few more minutes of chaos, during which Emily started by thoroughly demonstrating the erosion abilities of her darkness, before explaining exactly what she was going to do with it, and then slowly creeping the darkness up his legs.
For some reason, she had a quick flashback of the moment she tortured and killed Liam, back in London, which only exacerbated her anger.
Naturally, this process ingrained Dimitri with terror at the idea of his brave little soldier suffering a terrible fate, which made every man in that courtyard flinch a little. Unfortunately, neither his, nor anyone else's, plea had any effect on Emily.
That is, until Erik showed up.
At that point, the memories ended, and Erik snapped back to reality. He blinked slightly, and quickly realized that only a few seconds had passed for everyone else.
He turned to Dimitri with a raised eyebrow and a frown, "You're not good at taking no for an answer, are you?"
