if at first you don't succeed -

The lantern shatters, of course. As it does, Wessex's internal scans will tell her that she too has been shattered. A spear has been thrown through her rib cage, parting two bones (and fracturing them in the process). Slippery fluid trickles down the front of her. Were she mortal and entirely human she'd have been gasping in bright panic and pain. Conveniently she is not, but the damage is still severe.