Up inside the construct that Desidera is using to maneuver Gunvolt and herself closer to the beast, she briefly flinches as if momentarily startled by something—fortunately it's not enough to disrupt what she's doing.

In order to be able to control the shadows in the way she does, she needs a certain level of awareness of those shadows, of things like where they are, what they're doing, and yes, also of what's being done to them. In other words, in a way, she feels it when Valvatorez's shadow makes contact with hers.

She urges the entire thing to spread faster, knowing that Gunvolt will be making his move very soon, and when he does, she's going to need to be ready—likely in more ways than one.