[quote=@Antarctic Termite]
pls don't bully children, some of them are actually demons

tl;dr Mergoux put her face much too close to someone she didn't think could fight back, got momentarily blinded and deafened, and now Smudge has very good leverage on her sword.
[/quote]

And next to her, does she fail to realize a cosmic extra-terrestrial who can eradicate her with his staff... or get stabbed.