"Sou?" he tilts an eyebrow. "When I'm telling you that you can attack before it gets a good clawhold in his back and eats through his eyes, that you can attack it while it's weak, you still can't do that? When you know a piece of it is always there, a rope to bring it back to him, you can't attack that rope?" The eyebrow challenges him for a moment, and he concedes, "What if I let you touch the circle, at least?"