The stomach acid of a Firesnake is of remarkable strength, comprised of a sulphuric base., it can rend flesh from bone in mere minutes. The acid itself would be painless, searing out pain receptors too fast for the victims to respond, but for the fact that the mucus lining of the stomach contains a potent neurotoxin that strikes the nervous system instantly and causes the most incredible agony in any part of the body not already digested. When the village kills or captures a Firesnake, this mucosal lining often becomes a prized and expensive toxin used for coating war weapons. The rest of the stomach contents are used for etching steel, and sculpting metal technologies otherwise in advance of their technological abilities.

And now, Zara feels that power of creation and destruction firsthand as her lower body is quickly skeletonised by the roiling liquid. She looks into the face of Xenia and tries to squeal for help, but no voice will escape her lips. In moments, her head pops through the sphincter and submerges beneath the waters of death.

More of her brethren slide down the flesh tubes, already anticipating their bloody, and unbearable demise.