[Battle madness, or something so alike it as to make little difference in any case. If she were not flying around and engulfed in flames he would simply grab her and hold her until it passed. He's not sure what he can do as things stand.
Worse still, is his own mental state. For all that he's been able to hold up a good facade around here he is not well, and the fire around him is not doing him many favors. He has to press down memories of the Bragollach and the Nirnaeth so as not to lose himself in them. She is not a dragon or balrog, he can't kill her... he must remember that.
As she approaches again, breathing fire at him he makes the decision to drop his sword, it is more a liability than a help by now and he doesn't want to risk lashing out on instinct. He'll have to simply rely on his agility to keep himself from harm.]
I will not harm you! But you must calm yourself!
[There is fire in him as well, kept under the same iron clad control that kept him sane enough in Angband. But that control is slipping now and it shows in his eyes that are beginning to glow like two white-hot embers.]
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Worse still, is his own mental state. For all that he's been able to hold up a good facade around here he is not well, and the fire around him is not doing him many favors. He has to press down memories of the Bragollach and the Nirnaeth so as not to lose himself in them. She is not a dragon or balrog, he can't kill her... he must remember that.
As she approaches again, breathing fire at him he makes the decision to drop his sword, it is more a liability than a help by now and he doesn't want to risk lashing out on instinct. He'll have to simply rely on his agility to keep himself from harm.]
I will not harm you! But you must calm yourself!
[There is fire in him as well, kept under the same iron clad control that kept him sane enough in Angband. But that control is slipping now and it shows in his eyes that are beginning to glow like two white-hot embers.]