"So?! Then we get its attention! We get it in the mood to talk! You can't just meet aggression with aggression otherwise everyone loses!"

Dammit, they were running out of time!

"Look! We obviously have a means to slow it down! To bring it down! That means there's other ways to stop it! Siphon mages can siphon away its resistance! Cognition mages can try and calm it down! There's so many other ways that don't have to result in death!"