Now no longer in immediate threat from Lara, I finally ended the Synchro mode between myself and BB, allowing my Artificial Intelligence to come out of its combat trance at last.
<That was decidedly not fun,> BB stated the moment he was able to. <Still, we're still alive though, and I have to admit that was something wasn't expecting when you consider the gulf of both skill power between us her.>
Part of me couldn't believe that BB was still insulting me after everything we had been through, but to be honest I kind of had to accept his point. Lara seemed to shrug almost everything I did off, and even the attacks that physically moved her didn't do any damage.
I had the distinct feeling that she had been toying with me the entire time, and hadn't actually gotten serious until the moment it looked like I might actually escape.
That had been a mistake on her part.