Now when she spoke to him, the beast cowered. She was a more terrifying Fragment for him than even Ingolsol could have been. He thought her face to be filled with mockery, as if disdaining all that a man held valuable, and overwhelming. "Come, little lion, show them your teeth," she said jeeringly, threateningly. She had never struck him with physical force, despite that armour that she wore. This aggressive Claudia, in fact, was easier for Blackwell to deal with than the creature that he'd first been burdened with.