(You stole my power, Apple. Is this where they use the abbreviation to indicate that the last statement was a joke?)
The girl was being stubborn. That was fine. Akana didn't care. If she wanted to die, then she would die. Didn't mean that Akana had to be a part of it. Just as Akana was about to send her weapon back (tangent: where did the weapon go when she sent it back?), and leave the clearing, Jemina did something interesting. She moved fast. Nobody here had been able to move much more faster than the canal pleasure barges of long gone Cecia Town. But Jemina could move. And she used the wind to accelerate her movements. Maybe Akana could use this as a training opportunity. Get faster and better herself. Akana herself was barely able to see Jemina's movement. This would be fun.
With the challenge set, Akana set herself to beating it. Abandoning jumping for a moment, Akana focused on ground movement, her mind racing as she approached a tree to the east of the clearing. With a large crack that would have broken her legs, but for a protective air cushion, Akana, with sword ready for slashing accelerated toward Jemina , who had now headed for Jax, who was heading for Jemina. Her lessons in what the Ni Dair practical solver called physics flew through her brain, trying to distract Akana from the task at hand. "If you miscalculated the angle of force and the velocity and acceleration of the man, you'll miss Jemina, or worse, hit the man isntead," Ṗráp̄sáryn Vanna seemed to say as Akana closed in on the two people. Though Akana perceived her movement in sharp clarity with seconds seeming to pass by, she knew that it would be less than a half second from tree hit to the point where she would either hit her mark, hit the man, or miss completely.
