[quote=@Lugubrious]
Did they not wrap around her shoulders, as was his intention?
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Those intentions were not at all clear in your post.

[quote=@Lugubrious]
Revel discharged his whips, which lashed against Gloria's back and clung around her shoulders.
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I was under the impression that the ends of his whips were barbed or pointed like a grappling hook and going off of this they tore into her back. That's how I wrote it and undoing that would involve editing three pages worth of my posts and a couple of Chimera's from the infirmary. Besides even if they had just wrapped around her she'd still kick his ass six ways to Thursday.