This was exactly the sort of thing he wouldn't have gotten away with if these were her proper swords.

Still, she was prepared for that -- a ridiculous resistence to plasma was just one of the many things he expected. As he he yanked, she pulled back on the hilts to make the weapons contract again, both so the sword would cut into his arm as it tried to spool back in, and to add more momentum as she came in swinging with the other one.