Fury cold and clear ran through Cho. How dare these men in their black pajamas come into her home and threaten the man that she loved?
"Bing dao ye!" she chanted, flicking her wand to send a pair of icy blades shooting under the bed to slice through the achilles tendons of the nearest intruder. Even as he fell, she cast again with a vicious "xue sheng suo" which left the man bound in frozen ropes and buried in a knee high snowdrift. Using the downed man as cover, she darted out toward the foot of the bed to try to get an angle on the second man.
But as she raised her hand to summon more magic, something sliced across her shoulder, cutting deep and leaving fiery agony in its wake.