Belladonna watched as the Stranger beat himself to death. She didn't avert her eyes for a second, and hardly ever blinked. She simply watched, with a contented smile and an eerie, disturbing calm around her that sent shivers down the spines of many of the mercenaries watching.
Partly because they had no idea how she had done that. Mind control magic was not entirely unheard of, but it was rare and heavily restricted. Still, that still meant that some of the craftier and more dedicated individuals would still find ways to get their disgusting little hands on it.
However even if it was rare to actually use, many people knew of its restrictions, simply as a form of self defence. It was similar to the fact that you did not need to know how to build a gun, to know that you don't want to stand in the way of the barrel. Mind control magic was similar.
It did not have a barrel to stand in front of, per say, but there were percautions one could take and signs you could notice.
