Who is the subject in the following sentence?


I am a translator from Japanese into Italian and I have translated a long
text, it is the scrap of novel and not from the beginning, so it has been very
difficult for me to understand. The following are the sentences which I am not
sure to have properly translated. Could you help me?

> ポンポンと軽く **お手玉してみて** も、爪は消える気配を見せない  
>  "Even if they try to escape easily one after the other, the claws show no
> sign of disappearing"

Is the action of お手玉してみて performed by the nails? (爪)




お手玉 are small, traditionally handmade beanbags which are utilized as toys by
juggling them. So making the word into a verb, お手玉する, makes it in reference to
the concept of juggling.

> ポンポンと軽くお手玉してみても、爪は消える気配を見せない。
>
> Even having tried lightly juggling (something), the nails show no sign of
> disappearing.

Although that sentence seems very strange out of context, I hope it makes
sense to you? It seems as though there is someone with retractable claws that
believes through the distraction of juggling their claws might retract... but
they don't?

The claws are not what is performing the action in the first clause though, if
that helps you.

