Vanna turns back to look upward, just as a giant taloned hand hovers before her.

Cheline: Oh? Sorry, are you?

Cheline closes her claws around a very surprised Vanna.

She lifts Vanna up before her as feathers dance around. The bird face and neck have disappeared, revealing Halea's face once again. She smiles wildly at Vanna, the cyan veins threading from her neck wound.

Cheline: Not nearly sorry enough. No apology can repair the body of a broken god. You can do NOTHING.

Vanna looks up, terrified.

Vanna: Then what CAN be done?!

Cheline bares her teeth in a pained smile, then softens, looking disappointed.