User blog comment:HazelQuill7445/Awesome fan art/@comment-5430952-20161117074318/@comment-26397825-20161118064823

Or she can set the wood up and use a shorter handled axe, one where she's not liable to lose control and miss two thirds of the time. Because even if she doesn't actually get hurt due to her aura protecting her, she's going to feel like she cut her leg off every thing she hits herself. Aura only stops damage, it doesn't stop pain.

And then she'd stop, hop around in pain for a bit, try again, miss, stop again....

It's quicker and easier to just use a shorter handled axe and she doesn't become a masochist.

Plus if she does it enough with enough force, she will eventually break her aura and then she will lose a leg.