Snow watched as the hand seemed to vanish into the same particles that hovered above her head. Slowly those particles also disappeared, along with the strange haze in the environment. The mana pouring off the crystal began to vanish and she could no longer see it, though she could still feel it.
Behind her, she could hear the sounds of a crowd cheering and a few men clinking glasses together. The cheers were muted because of the room she was in that separated the crowd from Itorin's office. Snow glanced around quickly and saw that Itorin was not in the room, but a few high-class individuals were sitting near the windows at the front of the room, looking out over the battlefield.
It was unclear how she moved from the arena to this space, but even more strange was the sudden appearance of hundreds of people who were not there a few seconds ago…
