His plan to trap her was a good plan, but by the time he started shrinking the enclosure, she had thrown the lance and left the mental enclosure. So she was already gone and the bullets of the two Gatling guns only shot the air where she used to be.
This made him curse, saying, "Damn, she's fast."
She had tried to leap above the mental tentacles and escape into the air, but he had used his intuition and his vague sense of her location to make the mental tentacles grab at her.
She was so fast that if not for the fact that he sensed that one of the mental tentacles had touched her mind and that the Mental Freeze Metac had taken effect upon contact, he would have thought that she passed through the enclosure unscathed.
But she wasn't unscathed. Her mind had been frozen when she came into contact with the enclosure.
