Hookwolf didn’t even need to look. He laughed, “No. Afraid my lieutenant is a little too fast for you.”
Yeah… though are you sure you don’t need to look?
“Look out,” Cricket’s said from behind him, the artificial sound of her voice detracting from the inflection and urgency.
Okay, good, looks like it worked.
So what now?
A tide of glass slammed into him. Standing on only two limbs, his balance suffered, and he wasn’t able to keep from being pushed onto his side.
Ah!
Looks like I was right, sort of – she can’t dodge bullets and cancel the power at the same time, but she does have good enough reactions to do the former at the cost of giving Shatterbird a moment without the latter.
“Wasn’t aiming at her,” Shatterbird said. She fired several more shots, simultaneously releasing a shard of glass from her free hand.
…oh. Or she can use the gun to destabilize the glass that’s already there.
Hookwolf turned, saw Cricket clutching her throat. She’d dodged the bullets, but Shatterbird had controlled the flight of the glass shard she shot at Cricket much in the same way she’d controlled the descent of the massive spike of glass.
Or maybe it’s my first explanation and she’s just using the gun to distract Cricket without shooting at her. Or maybe she’s using the sound of the bullets to deafen Cricket’s subsonics.
Anyway, doesn’t that turn into a match of reactions? Cricket reacts to Shatterbird shooting the glass, Shatterbird reacts to Cricket moving and adjusts the glass’s path, Cricket reacts to the glass’s path changing and moves further, etc.? I would think Cricket would win such a match, unless Shatterbird correctly predicted her movements and didn’t have to rely on reactions.
It had struck its target. “Just needed to break her concentration.”
Oh, okay, it was the third one, then.
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