The moment Karkat's hand comes through, she's pushed too far and leaps at the front of the cage, aiming to swipe the offending appendage with her huge paws. But she misses, and she hisses at Karkat instead, before getting attacked by the canine at her feet with licks. She steps away, gawking at the animal, before lowering her own head to sniff the areas he's gotten to to make sure she wasn't injured.

She's panting now, obviously exhausted and stressed and completely at a lost with what to do. But something about the combination of everyone's voices, and almost attacking the arm she now recognises as Karkat's, has her getting hold of her own mind again, and the tigers eyes gloss over for a second, before the form starts to shaking and then melt away, revealing the tiny girl.

Her clothes and face are covered in blood and oil from where she and Cynthia had attacked the cyborgs, and she's shaking, holding her head with fear. And then Nessa looks up at the four faces at the entrance to her cage, and her stomach drops.

She couldn't remember what happened.

"Whu--..." Her voice cracks, and she looks around her cage in confusion. "Where's Cynthia?"