[In a sense, he doesn't have that broad of a world experience, no, particularly since as a dragon, his sense of development is skewed compared to a more "normal" being. Aware from birth, he never did start from the same point that human infants would; neither had he been given the chance for that childlike obliviousness he's seen in those like Efina. Perhaps his growth only truly started after meeting Neil.
She's not wrong either when she thinks that he won't bother to interject, his expression stony—all the more when she begins lecturing him for real. He looks as if he wants to snap something back at that, but he instead elects for dismissive silence (after maybe an annoyed tch, at least).
Assuming that this time, she doesn't dispel them, his shadows extend to her and her captive once more. Once they reach them, she'll find herself phasing into the ground, as are the Stalker and Brett, before they travel through the earth as shadows towards the base. Eventually, once Brett feels they're in an appropriate room to dump the Stalker in, they pop up from the floor, corporeal again. That said, while Ellana is free to move, Brett has more sense than to let the Stalker free, which he continues to keep restrained by his shadows. It means that he has no attention to spare on Ellana once they reemerge, as his efforts are spent on struggling to keep his mist firm against the Stalker's thrashing.
... It's really too bad that the only available tank large enough to hold it isn't directly on the floor or against a wall/some kind of physical object, meaning that although he can technically phase the Stalker through the tank walls in the air if he can manage to get the creature near it, he couldn't simply pop the Stalker into it from the floor or what have you. Instead, here it is in its tangible, fighting glory. Joy.]
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She's not wrong either when she thinks that he won't bother to interject, his expression stony—all the more when she begins lecturing him for real. He looks as if he wants to snap something back at that, but he instead elects for dismissive silence (after maybe an annoyed tch, at least).
Assuming that this time, she doesn't dispel them, his shadows extend to her and her captive once more. Once they reach them, she'll find herself phasing into the ground, as are the Stalker and Brett, before they travel through the earth as shadows towards the base. Eventually, once Brett feels they're in an appropriate room to dump the Stalker in, they pop up from the floor, corporeal again. That said, while Ellana is free to move, Brett has more sense than to let the Stalker free, which he continues to keep restrained by his shadows. It means that he has no attention to spare on Ellana once they reemerge, as his efforts are spent on struggling to keep his mist firm against the Stalker's thrashing.
... It's really too bad that the only available tank large enough to hold it isn't directly on the floor or against a wall/some kind of physical object, meaning that although he can technically phase the Stalker through the tank walls in the air if he can manage to get the creature near it, he couldn't simply pop the Stalker into it from the floor or what have you. Instead, here it is in its tangible, fighting glory. Joy.]