Sam felt pretty frustrated.
The surrounding environment is not allowing him to use different elements, but the fire element alone is a bit limiting to his abilities, he almost felt like he didn't put enough effort in developing his elements.
The woman in the black is like a slippery loach. He couldn't catch her no matter how much he tried. She is managing to dodge the attacks by a hair's breadth.
But still, after he got used to her rhythm, he managed to get some hits in and the fight actually started at the moment.
The lady is surprised. She certainly didn't expect Sam to catch on to her rhythm so quickly, much less managing to attack her.
Both of them almost abandoned their fire elements as they started fighting. For some reason Sam's golden flames are on par with her black flames, both of them couldn't completely take out the other with that, so they tacitly went for normal hand-to-hand combat.
