Illyria's throat might have something to say about the crushing -- in another timeline, even Marcus Hamilton wouldn't quite manage that -- but at the very least, the girl was fast enough that it would have knocked the breath from her, enough to give openings she didn't care to give.

Stopping it, on the other hand -- with the other hand -- would likely end in the very thing she'd said she wouldn't do. Instead, she nodded her own head once, then brought her hand up flat between herself and Azula's fist.

"That is satisfactory."