She lands back on the rocks, leaking slimy black ichor into the stone around her.
Her not-exactly-a-chest is burning. She wants to crawl back across the rocks and dig her teeth into it, tearing it apart bit by bit until every part of it is in pain. She wants to — wait —
—it feels very much like she's dragging her mind over the rocks, but she thinks maybe — she told the assassin you shouldn't just hurt people the most you can, it needs to balance out—
It tried to bite her. She tried to bite it. Maybe that's — her chest is burning, her every instinct is screaming at her not to just let it get away — but maybe it balances—
—no, that's stupid. It tried to kill her. It doesn't make sense to go easy on it for failing. It should hurt, it's right for it to hurt, if it wanted balance maybe it shouldn't have tried to eat her.