What It Does
The tail, drawn and let go where the hand says — the venom carries the wound in the tail and in the tooth, and the wound goes where the hunter points it. It is the line's signature in a single blow: the strike is the delivery, and the delivery is the whole argument.
The Cost
Circle 2 · Venom · Exchange: breath — casting time one round. On the ladder in The Veil, the breath rung is the price.
The Failure
The tail holds the shape a beat too long, and the venom keeps the tension — the strike is the one who delivers, and the one who is delivered to is the parry that was not meant to be struck.
In Stories
The journeyman's venom spell; the one the camp casts when the strike is the argument and the address is the one who has to drink.
The door's scale anchor is Venomfury — the dragon casts it without thinking, which is how a reader learns the shape of the thing.