[quote=@Tatterdemalion][b]Adila![/b]

Well. This is how you go. You have one claw clinging desperately to a forefang, even as the powerful muscles of the Snake Wife’s throat pulls you inexorably backwards to some terrible fate.

That’s when the swamp explodes upwards at the Snake Wife. There are branches grabbing at her, trees wrapping her in a bear hug, weeds lashing themselves into ropes and thorns nailing them down. You even have one tossed to you, blooming into fresh flowers!

This is Dandy throwing everything she’s got into this plan. She... she might not be coming back up. She’s probably stuck down there, weak as a day-old kitten, tangled up in roots. As soon as she’s pulled up, the plants will go still again, but... but she’s underwater and how long can she hold her breath, anyway???

Go ahead and roll to Finish the Snake-Wife with Sense.[/quote]

Princess Adila is deep in the throes of the curse at this point. It's hard to think deeply, it's hard to think at all. Instead emotion and impulse is overpowering. She wants ball and pats and to bark at anyone who threatens her friends. She doesn't have the strength to overcome this with brute force, and she doesn't have the intelligence to overcome with a cunning plan, and she doesn't even have the constant drumbeat of the Operations Manual in the back of her head. 

So she makes do with what she has.

She opens her mind and channels everything she's feeling up through the roof of the Snake Wife's mouth. She gathers all the uncertainty, confusion, protectiveness and love - especially the love because there's so much of it. She channels the uncomplicated desire for hugs and pats and warmth and comfort that is all the more powerful for being such a simple thing. She throws all of that up into the mind of the Snake-Wife... and then she summons just enough intelligence to add one final detail: the location of the Snake Husband.

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