Team attack

She flung it at me. I let go of Nailbiter, flew down, and hit the ground with an impact, my aura flared out. I didn't stop for half a second before immediately taking off again.

"Don't fucking hit me, 'piece!" Nailbiter screeched the words behind me, but the manner of speaking was even worse, as her teeth were retracting.

Again, I used my aura as I touched wall, not as heavy an impact, but I hit the edge of a window frame, and it made glass rattle. Aura out, harder than before.

I zig-zagged, ground to wall, wall to a point high overhead, point above to ground again. I made each point of contact with a surface something they had to pay attention to, putting them off guard, making Sidepiece have to turn around.

I took off again, flying toward her, aura at full blast.

Straight line, impact, straight line, impact, the pattern was ingrained. I flew toward her, the impact a damn promise I'd made, and then changed course in the air, veering away from Sidepiece, aura stopping abruptly.

She threw a rib, but it was a throw she'd been planning to throw at me while I charged at her. It went far afield, sailing in the direction of Capricorn, Mayday, and the rest of the group, and hit the road.

She didn't have time to get another pound of flesh ready to hurl at me.

Nailbiter was getting herself situated after the adjustments she'd made to try to cling to the building, one of her hands out, fending off Spright. She saw me coming, but too late. I hooked my arm around her middle, her long torso in the crook of my elbow, and I pulled her away from the wall, successfully this time.

Once I'd pulled her away, she was flailing, searching for something to hold onto. I didn't give her the opportunity to get a grip or find an angle to get me. I checked the coast was clear and tossed her down.

"Capricorn!" I called out.

"Okay," I heard him say, a distance away.

Nailbiter landed across the truck, surrounded by orange motes. The motes solidified, turning into the ridged white stone with orange-yellow veins running through it.

Nailbiter was stuck, part of her torso, her butt, and one arm caught in Capricorn's stone. The wall covered a considerable height, reaching up to the second story of the neighboring buildings, with some isolated spikes reaching up to the third.

- Shadow 5.5