Reaching out to grab the lance was a mistake that Q'uila wasn't about to let someone make in a friendly spar, she really didn't want to have to explain to Otoha's medic friend why the man would have large aether burns on his hand let alone how to heal them and so she wills the lance back into Hammerspace.

The lance vanishes just before Otoha could reach for it and Q'uila uses her now-freed hands to grab onto his forearm and unsheathes her claws. Better to heal smaller puncture wounds than aether burns. Combining her strength with his momentum Q'uila flips Otoha over her shoulder and sends his back crashing into the ground before capitalising on the move to try and restrain him.