Serena nods, and begins casting a spell to ensnare the Gloom, but it slips out of reality before her spell lands, bringing a curse from her lips, as she looks around, quickly, to try and find it.<br/><br/>Surprisingly, the green is in good health, physically, despite the horrific mutations. It's not wounded, at least, although the mental damage is likely rather thorough. Undoing it will require extensive work, even with his familiarity with this kind of mutation.<br/><br/>Unfortunately, as soon as it vanished into the shadow, it disappeared, even from his senses, slipping away into the Plane of Shadow. "Be careful, it could be anyw--hrrk," Serena says, as the Gloom suddenly lunges from her shadow, stabbing through her protections and delivering a grievous wound, even to her.