Wrong question, Makoto-chan--it's not trying to. It was right where it wanted to be. It was... I don't know, toying with us? There wasn't any beating Nyx, that's not even the main body.

[ she swallows, eyes hard as she looks at a memory of what had once been a close friend, trying to bring the end of everything--casting brutal waves of magic one moment, shielding itself the next. ]

Nyx was here because humans called her.