Talk:Maria Calavera/@comment-35455126-20190520005210/@comment-35434444-20190520141512

The same way she made it so far into grimm-infested mists unharmed to begin with.

Grimm are believed to go after negative emotions, but this is entirely true. What comes across as a signal to the grimm is not a negative mind but a turning mind.

If something in a lightly flowing stream starts to move against the current, it creates ripples and distortions. But if it moves with the flow it creates no disturbance wherever it drifts.

Like that, Maria hunts in the wilderness in the same way that she strolls through a garden. No thoughts of killing on her mind or even the notion that she is there to do anything. No words on her lips except the sigh she emits at how beautiful the sun looks as it shimmers off the fountain. And when a grimm does present itself, like a luscious rose for her to pick, she is present only to its scent and colour. Absent to all other places and times her mind could wander too. Heedless of its thorns.

Death comes to the grimm as spontaneously and subtly as...

Death.

Most grimm are used to being predators and so they don't know what to do when a human gets the drop on them. It doesn't seem possible.

When time is dispelled, there are no problems. The grimm show up, but there's no one there to kill.

Maria didn't have to look at her attacers to know how to block their attacks so I imagine her semblance heightens her other senses enough not to bump into things. Beyond that, she would had to have used her other senses and some deduction. Being well-travelled, knowing her way around wouldn't be too difficult once she figured out which direction she was facing, which she could do by feeling where the heat of the sun was coming from. If it was afternoon, it's heat would be coming from the west.

She was quite shaken after the attack, but she would also know that maintaining her equanimity and keeping out of sight would be the only things between her and danger. Perhaps she would have stopped and relaxed for a time. Hurrying as though she had to be somewhere would attract attention.

Even if she was found, it could have taken days of trekking before that happened.