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*Looks up at ES*
I think that you’d better not touch a single one of them before we try to fix things.
*Raises my hands nonchalantly next to my head*
I acknowledge your intention with that question. Could have chosen different wording, but unfortunately, this is one thing I did not come here to debate.
*The nearest frozen individual to us bursts into a buff of dust and debris, and a flash of black flame burns for an instant beneath it before exhausting immediately, and the same thing begins to happen in rapid succession outward from our position to all the rest in sight and off into the distance*