She shifted things around, working off the tension provided by his holding the handle end of the string.

"Building a new death ray."

She held up what looked like it could be the leg of a spider, if spiders were nearly as tall as people. "I figured I could use some parts of the construct that almost ate me to make a more effective death ray than the one I had before!"

She sounded a little too gleeful and not at all sane as she stated winding the spider leg around the taut string.

"Pull a little harder," she said, frowning at the string.