Collette choked on those needles, pain exploding in her mouth and causing her to flinch back before blindly barreling forward. She had to get away! This was ridiculous, needles were nothing, but she didn't want to deal with it, and she was injured.

The pain of not being able to think as rationally as usual meant leaving herself open to ridiculous and preventable attacks. The needles in her mouth themselves were dangerous, too close to pushing through into parts of the crocodile that would be heavily damaging.

She'd have to morph to get her eyesight back in the other eye, and to get rid of the needles. As soon as she morphed, she'd be a sitting duck.