In truth, she'd had a team of six to take him down the first time she'd fought him years ago, so the fact that the two were the only one was probably what was slowing all of this down. He was dangerous, but he was also slow and stupid. They just had to be careful. And with Luz's speed, his attempts to grab weren't getting anywhere. The latest ice formations were also causing him legitimate pain, given that his 'armor' was chitinous plating. He wasn't able to remove it no matter how he wanted to.

As he felt one of his arms in agony, Vira-Lorr lunged in, going for one of the knees. there was a spray of blood and she barely rolled away while he essentially lunged and swung his whole body, going down to a knee, driven down hard, aching and raging like a blind thing.

"One more ice glyph should do it! He can barely move!"