Once the "soup" was done, Maria took the pot off of the flames and set it in the shelter to let it cool off, not paying any attention to the bushes Simeon was hiding in. She then got her axe and used the back of it to hit the metal on her other arm. She wanted it off, maybe if she hit it it'd break.
Maria kept hitting it harder and harder, but all it did was make a loud sound that made her ears ring.
"Just...Work!" She hissed, and in her anger threw the axe on the ground, its blade sticking into the soil next to her.
Maria sighed hopelessly and looked at her arm with loathing eyes. She wanted to be normal again, and was paranoid that the metal may possibly start reaching her face. If it reached her face, what would happen? She was worried it may kill her, because what if it covered her mouth? Or blinded her by covering her eyes?