"And I'll keep our plants."

From where he's touching Zash's gun spreads a spiderweb of blue light, quickly climbing up to Zash's arm and then enveloping his whole body. Zash's eyes glow, too, and even though he tries to fight it, tries to stop it, it's too late. It was always too late. He's frozen, and by the time he's recovered, his brother is gone.

Knives doesn't particularly dawdle to make his way to the plant. He can hear her screaming, there's no way he'd miss it, and soon he's going through the broken down doors (so much for humans taking care of plants, they can't even keep other humans away) and then up the stairs.

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