[@Metal Tortoise]

[i]Though Steerina could squeak by Tom's narrative spell's restriction by calling the names of her attacks, that didn't permit her to initiate their functions without doing the same. She'd need to narrate the holy explosion facet, whereas she'd only have had time to get off the grab. Her original intent had been to slowly compress Tom to make him feel like a pancake, and to deliver a threat second. Steerina was fighting reactively. In a fist fight you could do that, but now it was a battle of words, and whomever spoke first held the advantage. She had changed her intent upon reacting to him talking, meaning that Tom had started talking first, and so held an edge speedwise. That explosion wasn't due to come without narration, but the flipping had likely upset the setup, so to speak, unless Steer didn't need to aim or know where a target was to attack with magic, and could maintain a steady bead on said target even through a microshift in space/time.[/i]