Eleanor was honestly starting to wonder whether it was worth it.

She could have killed the Pater already, if she'd actually been bothered.  On the other hand, Satori had seemed to eager to fight it, and Eubeal had told her to take care of his tuxedo (which at the moment was being carried away on the APC, having been left behind when Eleanor had hopped into the future).  There had been no good reason to ruin the fun for the other two, and so she'd stayed her hand.

Right now, however, the Magna Pater was making the grave mistake of interfering with what she was doing.  Eleanor liked her sight very much, and wasn't inclined to idly continue with her travels while it was impaired.  On the other hand, simply waiting around was boring.  She wanted to get going again, and as the seconds ticked by, she had less and less faith in the abilities of her two companions to actually finish it off.  Perhaps they were simply taking their time, toying with the creature before finally snuffing it out, but Eleanor was getting impatient.  If they took much longer, she'd steal their prey for herself, politeness be damned.

As it was, she was learning a great deal about the beast.  The spiders her brother had made for her had found a nice little sack of meat to play in, and though they were cast out from the body where they had made their home, there was still a great deal to be learned from loose gristle.  Every single cell in an organism contained the code for its entire structure, and much else besides.  As they cut and crawled, dissecting and analyzing the dead tissues, the spiders were feeding back to Eleanor what they found.  Given a little time, they would be able to tell her the locations of all the Pater's major organs, the chemical composition of the goo it excreted, its maximum potential speed and strength, and many other useful tidbits.  

Eleanor slowed, her ascent gradually coming to a halt around a hundred meters above the forest, where she floated, weightless and upside down.  Just for the sake of trying, she disconnected her optic nerves- or rather, the cords that had long ago replaced them -removing her own vision.  Easily undone, when the time came, but for now it might reveal a little more about this nuisance.  Could the ability still work when an affected individual possessed no sense of sight?