Of course, the collar came off!
It was never truly a question, however long the silence had stretched after his demand.
Mahishasura had spent his credibility assembling this room, and made promises to every ruined lounger in it. What was a question, and an interesting one, was how frightened they would allow themselves to look while paying it.
"Remove it," Mahishasura said.
"...." Yrsa's eyes looked at Noah as if in a warning as she did not yet nove.
"On my authority, and on my head, my dear Yrsa." The soft voice did not rise. "Remove it."
She crossed to Noah without another word, and her pale eyes held his for one long moment, and then she reached out.
CRACK!
THE GILDED CLAUSE opened and slid from his neck, and the golden chains uncoiled from his wrists, and every being of power in the pocket Dimension pulsed at once!
