[center][h2][b]Ophelia[/b][/h2][/center]

The room for strategy was over, it seemed--as Torquil vanished, and the horrid creature looked no worse for wear having feasted upon him, Ophelia knew that it was that simple. Do as much as she could before the quivering rapidly within her escalated to the point that it felt it would tear her asunder from within every miniscule part of her. She knew such things about the body, how they worked, how frail and fragile and strong they were, and it felt like all of that knowledge had turned traitor as she could [i]feel[/i] things inside her that she was not supposed to be able to feel coming apart at their most basic and fundamental level. She'd gotten the blood vial out for Torquil, and not knowing whether or not she'd survive she jammed the thing into her thigh and depressed it slightly, hoping the rest of the crimson ichor that gave them their supernatural vitality would flow into her after she came apart. 

Her sword was still inside this thing's head, so feeding it another quicksilver bullet to trigger another explosion--hopefully where its many toothy maws were, perhaps a weak point--was trivial. She did so, knowing that she was about to reach the end of her stamina, and would quickstep directly back only to try and avoid getting grabbed by this thing if, indeed, it did target her next. With her goal clear and her mind and body so overloaded by everything going on, she simply did what Gerlinde had done and attacked wildly until one of the few things she could still keep in her mind happened while everything else fell apart. Torquil had vanished, at least, which gave her a comforting sense that he was not gone forever... but she would seek vengeance upon this thing as a proxy for the Golden Bastard and his minions, for sweet Quilly (though that name was somewhat tainted now by the feeling of these quills pricking at her like needles), for all of them. There was little else to do: their combined assault would simply have to destroy this wretched creature before it could do any more damage to them.