It happens almost instantaneously. One second she's standing there with the blankest look on her face she has ever had -- and for Laura, that's saying quite a bit -- and then she's whirling around and aiming to drive her clawed fist into Kiden's head. Her eyes red and bloodshot, her face twisted into a snarl of rage, there is absolutely no recognition there and nothing whatsoever left of her humanity. In that second, she is all primal rage. She screams once and it sounds like something that could only come from an animal.