c19 orbital dodge

She cut off, sensing, as they all did, the incoming shockwave.

Orbital artillery! someone broadcast, unnecessarily.

As a teleporter, Ryouko was among the best equipped to dodge such an attack, but she had a duty, an obligation to try to get the others out as well. She emptied her mind, her TacComp plotting out an optimal extraction‐teleport pattern—move from group of girls to group of girls, picking up three or four and pulling them out of the radius of the bombardment strike, so that she carried as many as once without being forced to stand too long in one spot, with minimal travel distance in between. No time for touching; it would be done through the ground.

Blink—

And a brace of trees exploded in splintering lumber directly in front of her, but it was okay; it was okay because it hadn't landed on top of her, or she would have been forced to continue and the wide‐eyed Asami in front of her would be dead.

Blink—

And she found the orange girl with a sword, watching the sky with wide eyes, hoping she could dodge fast enough. They looked at each other.

Blink—

She found Meiqing hidden under a half‐dome of earth, surroundings dank and gloomy, her face covered in dirt.

It seemed interminable.

(To The Stars, Chapter 19)