But we had another option. If I could only convince Angelica.
“Go!” I shouted at her, kicking my legs.
Running straight off, to maintain better control than if you were to fall?
She pushed forward, and the movement only accelerated the decay of the fractured rooftop beneath her paws, prompting it to slide and tilt.
Hm, that’s not good.
Angelica ran toward the building to our right. To the right of the alley. She clearly intended to leap to the building face, use her claws to dig into position there… and there would be nowhere to go from there.
Hrm.
Even if she could hang there indefinitely, or scale the wall back to the street, Rune would scrape us off the wall with a levitated piece of rubble.
And hanging there indefinitely is kind of useless to begin with.
I grabbed a horn at the side of her head and hauled on it, pulling her left. She resisted, hauled right, but I tugged again.
“Go!” I shouted at her.
I’m sure having read that book on dog psychology could’ve come in handy here.
Maybe you have to whistle?
She lunged straight for the floating piece of debris. Her claws latched on it, and for a moment, we hung there, Angelica in an undignified pose with her upper body hanging onto the thing, back legs dangling.
Hm. Not a bad move, but now Rune just needs a vertical surface to slam you against, and there’s certainly some of those here.
Wait. Can Rune even move this now? It seems like the Manton effect should at least limit it. Though I guess if Taylor and Angelica being there cut the power off entirely from this piece of debris, it should fall.
Also, Rune was moving herself with a piece of debris and she’s presumably alive. I suppose it’d just be that she can’t use the power directly on people.
It drifted downward, slow at first, then faster, as though Rune couldn’t support the weight of us and the chunk of building.
…Angelica weighs a ton or more all on her own, doesn’t she.
I generally visualize the hellhounds as roughly the size and mass of a big car.
Angelica scrabbled for a grip, pulled her body up and forward, and found the footing to leap.
Nice.
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