User blog comment:HalointheSkye/Volume 3 Chapter 12 - End of the Beginning/@comment-26989559-20160215103158/@comment-26397825-20160215121658

Well...don't read if you're bad at gruesome stuff or really don't want to think about it, or are still feeling really bad about Pyrrha's death. Highlight if you do.

Well, Cinder did shoot her directly between the lungs and then cremate her on the spot from the inside out. Her lungs would have been one of the first things to be destroyed, which would mean that really she couldn’t breathe or scream or speak past that initial gasp because she had no lungs.