Ilsa: [That is ENOUGH about my — ]
Blake: WELL this is clearly a sensitive topic, so we’ll change it, but isn’t it sweet that Jany cares! She’s a nice girl, isn’t she? So we’ll be nice to her, right?
Jany (thinking): Is this just another part of a scheme, or . . . is Blake defending me?
Blake: Right? . . . Ilsa?
Ilsa! We get it, you’re scary. You can stop now!
[SNAP SNAP]
. . . Master?
Walker: Give it a minute.
Jany: Ah!
Walker: Jany . . . I’m sure you’re trying be kind, but maybe just avoid the subject entirely around Ilsa.
Jany: H-has it made her do this before?
Walker: Well,
not in any of my
visits.
And, admittedly, I may have once referred to the idea of killing Donderson in his bed under the cover of a battle . . .
Jany: I never said killing!
Walker: But coming from me, surely she understood that it was a friendly joke.
Hmm, did Ilsa “lock up” because she hasn’t had a battle in ages (and won’t be tempted, while Blake and Walker are on the same planet as her Master is!)? Or because she very nearly broke her Contract?
If the first, Jany has more experience with lock-ups than Walker knows…
I’m pretty sure that Ilsa’s had much more recent combat experience than Kara Lynn. Didn’t she fight Patrick while he was Cohen’s Being? That would have to be sometime in the past 30 years or so. Kara Lynn didn’t start freezing up until going much longer without a fight, I think.
Of course, the safe interval for going without a fight could vary from one Being to another.
First thought was the same freezing incident too. Maybe there are other things that could trigger the freezes, like acting with so much autonomy while bringing into question the Master’s true wishes. Or The Wolf could’ve just sensed their Master’s death?
It may also be that the Master being comatose also has an effect on the Being. We saw with Patrick that a Being suffers without a Master.