Hit her with the birch twigs and marshall a crowd of claws and peepers.

[and then try]

Bag their eyes with sordid flares and scandalous noisemakers.

[and then try]

Blur the distinction between tribute and torture: just enough of each.

[and then try]

The audience backs odds on purity or pregnancy.

[and then try]

She will be a critical darling or she will not be, depending on the rhythm of the spell and the keenness of her appetite.