Roy thought of one thing in the game.
Elisa had a phobia about knives when she was a kid.
Or one might say that she was afraid of anything pointy and sharp that could hurt her.
As everyone knows, once bitten, twice shy. To some extent, this is just normal, but when it exceeds certain extent, one develops a phobia.
A phobia is a persistent, excessive, unrealistic fear of an object, person, animal, activity or situation. Though the person himself may know his fear is irrational, he can’t avoid the mental and physical reaction when he encounters the object of his phobia.
There are a lot of objects of phobia, like snakes, rats, worms, etc. In Elisa’s case, she had fear for anything with sharp point or edge.
As for the cause of her phobia, well, it was complicated. One might say a person
