"That was a bit of a pain in the ass," Ena mutters, kicking the dead vampire. "Anything interesting in that book?"
"Yes. But there is another side. Come with me." Hopefully Harkon has vacated the cathedral by now.
Elana strides to the middle and turns to face Ena.
"This is the power of my family's blood. That of the vampire lord." Her face stretches and deforms, fangs sprouting, Wings burst free of her back as she hunches over, wreathed in darkness. When she straightens, she's taller, grey-skinned, with vicious hooked claws on the ends of her fingers.
She focuses, trying to find the power or whatever, and there's something new -
She frowns, then bursts into her Vampire Lord form.
"Good. In this form, your strength and speed are increased. You also have an increased magicka capacity and certain other powers."
She looks down at her clawed hands. "I can - feel it. What sorts of other powers?"
Does anything become obvious if she - sort of flexes the new sense of herself she has?
She lands, then tries to search herself - is there anything else intuitive like that?
Well that's helpful.
Okay, so what she can do now... Is basically more magic and the movement thing. Which is going to be useful for dodging attacks, maybe for repositioning and fleeing, especially if it's subtle enough - and if she can go through holes her full self wouldn't be able to fit through.
"I'm going to practice a bit more," she says, "I wouldn't mind sparring lightly some if you want to stick around, but I can also train on my own."
"If somehow you do get an opening to tear out my throat, refrain from taking it."
"Since you're new, I'll let you make the first move." She stands apparently relaxed.
When she goes up, a ball of light appears in her right hand - a prepared spell. Interesting. And what happens if she casts it at Elana?
A spike of ice drives at her target.
Elana disperses into a cloud of bats to avoid it, and reforms behind Ena.