Dodging them attacks

It had been a long time since I’d been on the receiving end of an attack I couldn’t follow and react to easily, but that didn’t mean I didn’t know how to compensate. After all, I was usually on the other side of this equation and people sometimes reacted to me. Even if the individual attacks themselves were too fast for me to follow directly, I could still make accurate guesses knowing her reach, the number of attacks in a given period of time, and the direction of each lash. Each attack had a starting point and ending point and if one attack flowed into the next, I could use that information to track the pattern of attacks—or even guide it, if I was willing to sacrifice a limb here and there as bait.

For example, if I jumped up to dodge a horizontal sweep, the next attack would come upwards at an angle from whatever side the sweep was headed. If I dodged that by reaching back for the ground, the third attack would slope downwards from the end point of the second attack. Because the attacks came in such quick succession, I could assume that the moment I’d evaded one strike, I’d already be in danger of the next, so it wasn’t so much an issue of timing as it was of never hesitating or slowing down and keeping a constant eye—or four—out for deceptions. Adding her blade to the equation was simply a matter of doing that for two different weapons moving independently of one another, each trying to herd me into the other’s path. Which was…

Pretty goddamn hard to do in theory and a hell of a lot harder to do in practice. But did I complain? No.