Dodging Lung's fire

Lung started hurling streams of fire into the sky. Easy enough to dodge.

Still pushing with my flight to keep ahead of the trail, tracing a wide circle around the area, I pulsed my aura again. Was there a shape to the extinguished area? It wasn't circular or neat. Did it vary? Why?

***

There was something colder in him than I'd seen in any of our past encounters. The feral edge was still there, but the Lung I'd known wouldn't have ducked into the flame to-

A column of flame stabbed skyward like an giant's spear, forged of explosions. I flew out of the way, and the spear curved, following me. I tried to fly back toward the base of the column so that the 'head' with the momentum behind it would have a harder time chasing me, saw a light pulse within it, and I put some distance between myself and the column. The column expanded- regular orange fire, and not purple.

***

Columns and tapered spikes of fire speared up without much warning or reasoning as to where they came from. Lung wasn't near all or even most of them, but he fired, and the orange light illuminated me. As Teacher's thralls had done with their anti-air guns, Lung was trying to box me in, caging me. Five spikes in a couple of seconds, all curving in the air as I changed my direction. One ignited, turning purple, and the ignition caught on my flight trail.

If I slowed enough to fly around instead of forward, that flame would catch me.

I flew forward, instead, full speed, with a column looming in my way. Nearer to the ground, I saw Lung connect it to purple fire, and that augmented flame climbed faster than I could fly forward. It would balloon in size before I got past it, and each pulse of my aura made those flames lunge higher.

I kept using my aura, all the same.

- Gleaming 9.11