Ilde does not take advantage of the particular vision of fear that builds in Mara. A weakness, perhaps, that she is not so willing to engage that and torment the woman with it further? They may need to discuss that weakness. For now, however, Ilde does not think further on it, merely allows Mara's own mind to do its own work until she pulls back from it and the avatar approaches again.
The long snakelike tongue is liability now, and for a moment the teeth gnash ineffectually... until the avatar takes one of its own glittering knives and slices the tongue free. Blood drips from its mouth, an utterly ghastly vision in Ilde's likeness.
On her pedestal behind it, she is not troubled by the gore, and her scorecard takes a self-inflicted reduction with equally little reaction.
The two avatars are in close range again, so the Ilde-thing abandons its throwing knives in exchange for repitilian claws which come screaming after the other avatar's eyes. Yes, they had discussed why a strike to the face would not be so useful... but what if you truly intended to claw their face to the bone? Did that count?
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The long snakelike tongue is liability now, and for a moment the teeth gnash ineffectually... until the avatar takes one of its own glittering knives and slices the tongue free. Blood drips from its mouth, an utterly ghastly vision in Ilde's likeness.
On her pedestal behind it, she is not troubled by the gore, and her scorecard takes a self-inflicted reduction with equally little reaction.
The two avatars are in close range again, so the Ilde-thing abandons its throwing knives in exchange for repitilian claws which come screaming after the other avatar's eyes. Yes, they had discussed why a strike to the face would not be so useful... but what if you truly intended to claw their face to the bone? Did that count?