Tactics and Ground-Scooping

Error might need to concentrate. She seemed to focus on looking at people.

Identify the cracks, then strike. So long as it was reasoned out and so long as it didn't escalate…

I hit the ground, scooping up as much as the Wretch could get, and sending a cascade of dirt and clumps of earth at Error and into the air. In the process, I hit Shortcut, because of course I did. But as much as it blinded and debilitated him, it also served to blind and limit her. I flew in closer, aura on, and I didn't feel the pressure of that power settling in around me, warping space or altering my tactile and visual senses, or whatever it did.

Sveta's hand grabbed me. I turned to look- and I saw that the dust was thick enough in the air that she couldn't tell us apart, a fact that wasn't helped by darkness and dirt.

I did the natural thing to communicate to her without tipping off Error. I gave the hand a waggle.

Then I grabbed it and I threw it out in Error's direction.

With how this power seemed to work, it might get Shortcut instead. That would win us points.

But Shortcut, blinded, had backed off. Sveta's hand dragged Error to her, and though her other arm was still disabled, she wrapped her legs around Error's neck and shoulders.

- Beacon 8.5