He shrugged, as he revealed a MASSIVE gemstone in his chest even as the action betrayed a time schism between her and him, the gem already fully charged and discharging a balefire beam, point blank, into her. "Smile."<br/><br/>The trap was expertly set up, in his mind. Using the crystals to harvest sunlight even before he let V'elen merge with his form, most of that time between the planar swap and the merging had been spent with V'elen using most of its power to harvest the energy, convert it, and then hide what it was doing. Using his other actions to put her off guard, still harvesting sunlight, and then using his usual 'head to head' confrontation style to get her too close to get clear.