Her eyes went to the blade, and considered what she'd seen until this point. There was no way this man would be faster than she was, so she did, in fact, let him go.
But she did not move back.
Phaedra heard his heart speed up and merely waited. No one would die because of this sleepwalking man. There were too few allies already, though Phaedra truly disliked that term, and too few captors.