<div class="floatright">(http://puu.sh/o69Lc.jpg)</div>The prisoner's eyes glinted in the darkness. As the tan-skinned Nuria watched him struggle against his chains, watched him bleed, her eyes glowed. Her eyes burnt. There was a hunger in them. Not for food, not for sex, something<em>deeper</em>. The sharp-eared man whimpered as if defeated, but he had fight in him yet, she could see it, hear it in the tone of his voice.<br/><br/>Her caution was forgotten. Her surroundings fell away and she brushed past Phelypsis without hesitation. There was a power that rose in her with each step, something more than the flames she conjured so casually, something raw and elemental, something deep and true.<br/><br/>"Freedom," she said with her own voice, yet it sounded strange, as if someone else entirely had said it. "Freedom has its price. I will take away your chains."<br/><br/>She leaned forward to grasp his hands, then reached to his arms where the chain was attached to heavy manacles. "But," she continued, "you will bear my mark." Her hands began to glow, to burn with heat as the metal began to do the same and melted away. The divine flame reached deep, called to by this exchange, this sacrifice of pain in exchange for freedom and imparted its true gift that came with the flesh that sizzled beneath: certainty. Freedom from doubt, a truth to tear away the many, many lies: this was real.<br/><br/>And as the chains fell away and into the water below with a hiss as overheated metal cooled down again, the woman pressed her lips against the man's -- quick, fleeting, the kiss of flame that left a tingling warmth on his own dry lips before she stepped back, faltered and with a sudden spell of weakness almost fell if Phelypsis hadn't been right behind her.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>Nuria uses her 'hand crafted' ability to quickly heat and make metal into crude objects, as well as to<em>unmake</em>them, with a bit of extra flair about the whole 'fire sacrifice' and 'power from sacrifice' thing. I hope that bit and the 'truth' thing are okay.