It all happened too fast. She was distracted for a moment, and in the next her master was blasted away with a beam of light. There was no reacting to that, but even then, Lara still blamed herself.
In the panic that followed she allowed her opponent to place more bindings. With each one she severed he added two more, further limiting her movements and gradually pushing her down a pit she couldn't escape from.
The world was then swallowed by a brilliant light and Lara recognized its source.
A chance.
She dismissed her spear with a thought and did the same with her halo. At the same time she brought her hands behind her back and dug the nails on the right on into her left wrist.
