Committing herself to blocking the initial attack, yes, and even you admit that it was "unsurprisingly" wrapping around, so you might not be giving Evvie enough credit to anticipate that much, having fought a lot and likely fought flexible objects. I can see the way I wrote her blocking it (using the word deflect) seems like she might have been just trying to deflect it away or something, so it's probably my fault on the confusion for not going into further detail and poor word choices.

EDIT: I edited the post. Hopefully it's better.