Avoids Echidna

I didn’t have a moment to breathe. The bulging mass that was Noelle was upon me almost immediately, rushing towards me at that still ridiculous speed.

Even if she was surprisingly fast for her size, however, Noelle still wasn’t as fast as me, and especially, she wasn’t as nimble. Something that size couldn’t just stop and start and change directions on a dime, because she still had to obey the limitation called ‘physics.’

I was thankful, in a strange way, as I leapt away from her, though. In a fight, with Atalanta there in my head, there was no room for thinking about what Not-Lisa had said. I had to focus entirely on the enemy in front of me.