The children who were hanging from the chains and the men who were unconscious on the other side of the room weren't spared from Nova's skill either. They were also dried up and frozen and Nova knew that they were dead since she couldn't hear a heartbeat. She slowly released her skill as she swallowed thickly, "Oh," she said.
She looked towards Kyle and wondered how Kyle was able to survive, but then she remembered that Jason once told her how all his familiars share mana with him. Kyle was able to take mana from Jason, so there was no mana to absorb from Kyle.
Nova looked back and she saw that her ice extended past the threshold of the room and into the actual family building and she wondered how far it went. Did she kill everybody in the house? She hoped not.