Being stuck to the side of a mechanical caravan traveling at ridiculous speeds, Eleanor wasn't in a particularly good position to clap her hands with excitement.  However, she certainly would have if she'd had the chance.  Mists and monsters and magic, goodness this was an interesting trip!  As it was, a small, innocent smile broke through her usual poker face.

Clever as the Magna Pater thought it was, she'd outsmarted it in this case.  Did it really think someone willing to help hunt down a dark god couldn't even aim their gun properly?  Eleanor's misses had been entirely intentional.  She'd shot three bullets down in front of the Pater, and now, having made no effort to reduce its forward momentum or avert its course, it would be passing over them.  

Another [i]click[/i] on the pocketwatch.  [i]Rewind![/i]

The monster could spring into the air very quickly, but it was unlikely that it could spring up quicker than the three bullets that now sprang out from the ground as if fired anew, streaking diagonally upwards along their original paths with even greater speed than they had first been unleashed.   An incredibly fast attack from an unexpected angle, hitting what Eleanor hoped was a vulnerable underside (monsters had those, didn't they?)  Admittedly their aim lacked the pinpoint accuracy of an actual shot from the weapon, but she had taken care in positioning her supposed misses, and the Pater wasn't exactly a minuscule target.

Assuming the monster's leap wasn't disrupted by the projectiles suddenly tearing into it from below, it would find that its subsequent plans were not so perfect as it had thought, either.  It had made the mistake of activating its blindness spell in midair, thus making its action of scooping a rock up from the ground still visible to those with the right kind of vision- and Eleanor's family happened to make some of the sharpest eyes in existence.  The monstrous devices that lurked behind those dark goggles of hers were watching carefully, and they weren't about to miss such an obvious ploy.

Dodging in midair was hard, dodging a bullet even more so.  She could see it had a ploy, all she had to do was make sure her weapon remained steady- and as she had just demonstrated, Eleanor had a [i]very[/i] good command of her weapon and its projectiles.

[i]Click. Freeze![/i]

The weapon would not fire, but neither would it budge as the rock harmlessly bounced off it.  In fact, it would not budge at all, having momentarily been stopped in time, and would thus drag Eubeal backwards across the roof of the vehicle at high speed.  But the effect was only temporary.  Barely a moment after the threat was gone, the weapon would once again begin moving through time normally, returning to its ordinary state- and giving Eubeal, if he was quick enough, a chance to make that shot properly.

Satisfied for now, Eleanor turned her attention to the mists, watching for any sign of a greater threat.