Only Dangoz heard the question, and no one would ever hear the rejoinder, because Mel, gripping his enemy's throat with his left hand, explicitly denied authorization for it. Even though the nephew of the Wind Claw Union Leader desperately attempted to liberate himself by carving gashes into Mel's upper vessel with the dagger in his left hand, he couldn't prevent his feet from being severed from the earth.
When Mel hoisted his frail adversary a hand-span into the air, the dagger piercing his vessel finally lodged where it was buried. The weapon in his alternate hand had long since plummeted to the earth, because every single finger capable of gripping it had been violently shattered.
