In her energy protected building, the Wroug Woman is disappointed.

They have thwarted some of her plans (no, just delayed). Something blocks the viewing tunnel. It is out of focus.

The hostage has his male body back. He can move but will not last long with such weak spirit and soul energies.

There many ways to turn this setback around.

The viewing tunnel is clear again.

Equipment powers down around her. The defenses and trans-planar fields have sustaining energies, but local systems are turning or failing.

Only the terminal in front of her stays powered up. The way she designed these things, the terminal is all she needs.

Ima giggles weakly 'Shiny Lady!'

"Where? Where do you see it?" the Wroug Woman barks.

'A couple of inches above your head. Looking down!' sighs a trembling Ima.

The wroug woman lifts her head up but sees nothing. She tries to engage energy securing systems, but they do not respond. Nothing responds anymore.

"OK. It is over then. Listen, please save my data sets of backed up consciousness. Not backups for me, the latest one for my husband. Save those and restore him. Just give him my research update files once he is back. There is no need to preserve me. So long as he lives."

"first" is touching the woman with her spirit energies and discovers yet another vile trick is being attempted.

The consciousness in the Wroug Woman is not the wroug woman at all. It is something else. Probably not even the husband. Replaced into a victim and another victim, a consciousness that tries to grow more powerful in different forms.

"first" looks over at Ima, a sad and near to dissipate soul. The bed close by covered in the kind of dried blood of many small wounds. He was tortured and then tortured again.

This person wanted Ami's body and two souls swept out of existence. Making room for her to go to Lan Space with universal sympathy over the sad tragedy. A terribly vile trick.

"first" struggles to decide what kind a restraint to bind this person with. What should I use to hold this creature fast and secure?

Ima giggles in a heartbreaking dissociative tone. He is so weak sounding. Terrible, vile! Hurting him and Ami.

"first" bring together her two smallest fingers on her left hand and then pinches the other fingers inward. She rotates the wrist flat and lets her hand fall forward, releasing the fingers outward.

From Ima's view, you could say that the woman and her terminal had turned to dust and blown off into nothingness. Possibly, those things had turned to small water bubbles that evaporated.

That was just the outward appearance. Something that happens when a part of the universe is erased. How it looks when the missing part is filled in with nothingness.

Ima is so weak he thinks it looks funny, yet deep down he senses it. Something removed a sentient life.

Gone.

No chance of recovery, in any way.

The shiny lady simply hovers there. An energy being in biped shape. Her left hand trembling.