[They haven't tangled physically before. Riddick is strong; but Iris is also a good deal stronger and tougher than a human equivalent.
More importantly, Iris doesn't give a stuff if he breaks her wrist as long as she can get her work done, and she can do it through any skin contact. So she doesn't resist; she just goes pliant in his grasp and lunges her mind along the electrical surge of hers and Riddick's nerve-endings, snaking up into his mind as irresistibly as the rising tide.
She leaves her body standing; Marsh can look after it or let it break. It really doesn't matter.
She'd been aware he wasn't quite human; she finds, now, that his mind is constructed more like her own than an unaugmented human's. This both elates and concerns her; she edges further in, her hindbrain sniffing the air. She's not, yet, trying to change anything; only to get the feel of it, to be absolutely certain what's Riddick and what's been superimposed.]
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More importantly, Iris doesn't give a stuff if he breaks her wrist as long as she can get her work done, and she can do it through any skin contact. So she doesn't resist; she just goes pliant in his grasp and lunges her mind along the electrical surge of hers and Riddick's nerve-endings, snaking up into his mind as irresistibly as the rising tide.
She leaves her body standing; Marsh can look after it or let it break. It really doesn't matter.
She'd been aware he wasn't quite human; she finds, now, that his mind is constructed more like her own than an unaugmented human's. This both elates and concerns her; she edges further in, her hindbrain sniffing the air. She's not, yet, trying to change anything; only to get the feel of it, to be absolutely certain what's Riddick and what's been superimposed.]