The sound of cracking, crumbling porcelain.

The doll reeled as the joints of its foremost set of limbs snapped and shattered, its bladed arms detaching at the shoulder as it staggered backwards. While it wasn't likely such an entity could suffer pain, it had to be aware it just lost its main form of offense. Unable to even sacrifice its limbs as a shield, the arrow struck it squarely in the chest.

The eruption of magically enhanced air pressure blew open its body with a flash of light, scattering fragments of white to the ground and exposing a black hole rimmed with jagged edges. The upper half of the doll left the ground, balancing on its rear limbs only briefly from the impact, exposing the catastrophic damage to its torso. While it was still in one piece, the gap revealing whatever darkness laid inside of it took up a significant portion of its body.

Hewing the head from another of the smaller dolls, Velvetica straightened. It was no longer moving, slowly teetering back.

And the Witch, Tabitha, was clapping.

"My my, what a fantastic performance! Disarming my spider doll that way, such quick thinking~"

She smiled brightly. Velvetica narrowed her eyes. This 'test' had only served to slow them down. They had to-

"However, it isn't much of a test if it ends here, is it~?"

-The doll straightened.

Its three remaining arms suddenly lashed to its sides, snatching the bladed limbs of the smaller dolls. With a swift, effortless tug, it ripped them from its fellow constructs, gripping the razor-edged appendages in each of its remaining hands.

The giant doll was not finished, yet.

"Tch...! Aim for the damaged spot in its torso. It'll be too difficult to-"

A blade hurtled towards her. Velvetica swung Starshine up, and with a resounding clash was sent skidding backwards across the floor.

But she didn't lose her footing, nor did it do more then give her a brief pause.

"-disable all the remaining limbs, so break it apart!"

The remaining arms were blurring, lashing out, thrusting towards the nearest attackers.

Defense, or evasion, were key.

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