Oh.

She looks... like she didn't want to win the fight she just fought.

"Hello?"

She glances over, face drawn and unhappy, but doesn't respond.

"Do you- need help? With, uh, anything?"

Choked laugh.

Villanelle nudges Ellie. And, softly: "She's under mind-altering magic."

"Can you break it?"

"I can't allow you."

She hums a bit, the tone questioning but mostly flat -

(Villanelle's pretty good at hiding her spells. She cast one even before telling Ellie what the magic was - that first one makes her pretty, charming, alluring - needed, given she loaned her headband to Ellie a while back.)

The girl's going to have just short of a minute of a free mind now, but, well. Villanelle can work quickly. 

She cries out, nearly tumbling from the throne.

"It'll come back. Fight it."

And she starts to sing in earnest, and to dance a moment later, a mesmerizing whirlwind.

(That last spell gave the girl clarity and a bolder heart. These new ones give luck, strength, and insight, and then her dance challenges whatever compulsion lays on the woman, encouraging her to fight back, lending her Villanelle's strength.)

She keens - and her mind slips off the chains of kotoamatsukami once, but - it feels like destiny is twisting around her, building her resolve, and the hum of magic from the woman makes her feel powerful - the even temporary clarity gives her a vicious hope she hasn't felt in years -

Half a minute after Villanelle lifted those chains from her mind enough she could stand - most of which went to building the strength now coursing through her mind - Uchiha Hisame shatters the bonds on her once and for all.

And Villanelle's dance winds into a graceful bow - a gesture of invitation.

She laughs, nearly hysterically, and pushes herself up to stand.

Ellie applauds.

(Villanelle is so talented and good.)

"How did you do that?"

"Villanelle is a bard. Inspiring people, raising them up, is basically what she does."

"You're not using chakra."

"That'd be your local magic? No. We're, uh, not from around here. Where 'here' means this universe."

Long pause.

Then: "How does leaving work? - Going somewhere else."

"We have a spaceship."

"How much for passage?"

"I'd have to check with the captain." She turns to Villanelle. "Captain?"

"I think you're experienced enough to figure this out, First Mate."

"Aye, captain." Back to the girl. "Probably we should start with introductions. She's Villanelle, a bard, like I said. My name's Ellie and I'm a sorcerer. What's your name?"

"...I don't have one I like."