You make it sound so gauche.

[Viridi huffs slightly.]

Like I would ever let my powers run out of control. I'm still just letting them think they have some kind of hold over me when actually I'm --

[Viridi would keep lying, but she's interrupted partway through by an enormous sentient puddle of goop crushing her from the sky.

After a few moments, the giant blobfish grows tarantula legs and scuttles away.]

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