As White Mask was sitting facing her with his face turned toward the window, this was a fairly good position for her to attack him. He wasn't watching her directly, so she had a tiny margin of time to flash forward and hit him in the neck at a critical point. But…it was still risky. If she could just get a teensy, tiny bit more of an opening, that would be perfect…
As an easily distractible person, Abrial was distracted suddenly by a gleam of pearly white on White Mask's clothes. When he had shifted to free her from the paralyzing spells, something had come loose from his belt and was now lying over the folds of his pale blue robes. What an interesting object! Abrial gazed at it with interest while trying to formulate a plan.
It looked like a coin-shaped disc of pearly white jade, strung through with pale blue thread and tied to his belt as an accessory. How funny! Men didn't usually wear things like that, did they? It was jewelry for women!
