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

When Ophelia's shot missed she suddenly got a sense for how difficult the task she'd attempted was, that this truly was not as easy as "point and aim", and that there was a knack Farren had for it (as well as some amount of luck) that she had an immediate and profound respect for. The briefest instant of time she was afforded to dwell on this feeling immediately over, she attempted to parry Arrayah's reverse swing with a much more sensible quicksilver shot to her centre of mass, figuring the thing that made these bullets effective was simply a delivery of mercury-infused Old Blood. The moment of timing was tense, but her focus was still drawn taut from the earlier shot and this one she was determined to at least [i]hit[/i] her target--she aimed and she she fired just before she could see the apex of the swing coming and the momentum beginning to shift. Farren would presumably try to escape still--wisely--but perhaps this could lend them a moment. Gerlinde would certainly appreciate an opening for a visceral attack, of that Ophelia was certain.