[She's right: if V's incapacitated or otherwise weakened, then it's hard to summon the strength—no pun intended—to keep Shadow on the battlefield. Thus his interest in remaining at a relatively safe distance away from the main fight. It's a strategy that has served him well in the past, if only because he’s had no other choice.
Shadow’s tendrils, meanwhile, strike only thin air. She’s already teleported and reappeared directly behind the familiar, and it hears her and twists on its four legs to meet her head-on, but by then it’s already too late. The axe comes down and collides straight into the panther, and it loses form, splitting into two dark waves, as though she had struck black, liquid mercury rather than a physical shape.
Hard to tell if she’s done any damage to it, then, but by V’s frown over in the distance, she likely has.]
Mmn.
[Tricky, tricky.
Shadow reforms, though, at her side. There’s a moment of disorientation, probably wrought from having been cleaved in two, but then it’s swiping at her with a huge claw that simply turns into the shape of a pointed scythe.]
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Shadow’s tendrils, meanwhile, strike only thin air. She’s already teleported and reappeared directly behind the familiar, and it hears her and twists on its four legs to meet her head-on, but by then it’s already too late. The axe comes down and collides straight into the panther, and it loses form, splitting into two dark waves, as though she had struck black, liquid mercury rather than a physical shape.
Hard to tell if she’s done any damage to it, then, but by V’s frown over in the distance, she likely has.]
Mmn.
[Tricky, tricky.
Shadow reforms, though, at her side. There’s a moment of disorientation, probably wrought from having been cleaved in two, but then it’s swiping at her with a huge claw that simply turns into the shape of a pointed scythe.]