User blog comment:HalointheSkye/Volume 3 Chapter 12 - End of the Beginning/@comment-26989559-20160215103158/@comment-10380701-20160215122257

According to some analysis I saw. Pyrrha already died from the arrow before Cinder ashed her. Spirited's comment goes to the specifics of how that happened.

But yeah, it's a pretty shitty way to go and one of the most brutal deaths I've seen in a while.