Annotated 35-35
Frigg shouts at the others, but just enough to get them out of her way. As soon as she sees the monster, almost all emotion seems to drain from her. She puts one foot in front of the other, she summons her power. Everything in her needs this Beast to be dead, and so anything in her (rage, pain, whatever) that might cloud her mind from that goal simply moves out of the way. From someone like Frigg, it’s hard to imagine a scarier reaction than this.
I mean, I’m surly when loud music wakes me up too, but still.
The others, incidentally, are not just standing around and waiting for her, though it may seem like it. The musical assault is battering the Beast’s core as well as keeping its skin peeled off from it, and Magda’s stone-hands are trying to crush that core, not just holding it in place. But it still clings to life, long enough to need Frigg’s extra push.
I guess the thing I don’t see with how the flow of the battle progressed is how Hammerhead just suddenly stopped being a concern.
I just don’t see anyone in the party just suddenly unconcerned about the second biggest threat in there, just as I don’t see the temporary restraints that held him down being effective over longer periods of time.
This will be addressed on the chapter’s last page, but basically, Magda followed up the restraints with more restraints until Hammerhead was down for the duration of the fight. Land sharks do not fatigue, but they can take a while to wear down stone constructions, and Magda can generate new ones a lot faster. Fr’Nj helped, to be sure, but in this fairly barren terrain, her power wasn’t the deciding factor.
It kinda look like she’s also got a need to kill the thing herself rather than allow others to do it. Even if the thing is practically beat already, there’s no way she could sit on the sidelines and watch it die. She’s a very urgent need for some proper revenge.
Frigg gave me goosebumps here…