The illusion dissipates and leaves Ilde behind, bloody but successful and taking this opportunity to examine the claw-marks left behind on her tail. (There'd been a reason she'd felt obliged to punt it out of the water.) Other marks of interest include the fact that the uniform white of her body (with its blue-green sheen) is broken a ways below her backside in an indistinct black mark curving around half of said tail and dragging down a little one side of her.

"I have my uses," she says, though, looking up once before she does a little roll in the water to clean herself.