<span style="font-style: italic">Right, this whole scene is going absolutely nowhere good</span>, Akiada thinks, glaring at Christina. "No, you want to crush the nasty snake like a bug and then go back to being a statue," he says, on the off chance it<span style="font-style: italic">is</span>responding commands more complex than 'stop.' He doesn't however, stick around to find out. Instead the wolf bolts for the door he came in from. Hopefully Yu Ca was still on the other side.