Zafika can finally remove their hands from their ears when Matilda stops screaming, and with that they can also release her mouth, their tail sliding back down to pool around their legs. They look at the rotating the monster is doing, and oh they're so annoyed by that thing!

Even worse, they see their dagger fall down those sixty feet, followed by a gush of bright green monster blood landing right on top of it. Perfect. Sorry Muraj, they'll clean that up once it's safe to retrieve their dagger!

"Okay, now what? That thing might as well bend reality in its advance, since it obeys almost no laws of physics or basic biology. So getting on top of it again is a no go, but that one stab might have done practically nothing."