Luckily for Strange the MoI isn't super interested in killing him right there, so it mostly just wants to dunk him in the pool and keep him distracted. Drowning, for the moment, is fairly distracting, so it works out.

Rita gestures her hand again, batting away the next tendril of water with force borrowed from the fae controlling her body.

"Limits exist to be broken," she says. The Mother focuses on the connection between their hearts, reaching out to Ignatius in turn.