Chapter 41: Beast Mimicry
She reached for me first.
One moment she was standing in the track looking down at the three of us. The next her hand was coming toward my face.
I moved.
The dagger came out of its sheath as I dropped left and drove qi through the leg channels. Her hand caught the air where my head had been. She turned toward where I had moved, and I was already somewhere else.
Blind spot. Hold it.
Suyin came in from the left with the staff extended. A pin, driving the shaft across the large woman's right forearm, leaning into it with her full weight, trapping the arm against her body. The woman's head snapped toward Suyin and then her left hand came up.
Hao was already moving.
He came in low from behind, wrapped both arms around her torso, planted his feet, and threw.
She went over his hip and hit the ground hard. The impact traveled up through the packed earth and into the soles of my feet.