He couldn't see the serpents. Skylar's smoke blinded him. But Tori-Sense, that ridiculous precognitive twitch that warned him of incoming projectiles, must have fired on both threats because his body moved before the serpents arrived. He stepped left and the first serpent's jaws snapped shut on empty air. He brought the bat down and the second serpent exploded into shards of frozen water that sprayed across the platform.
He moved through her smoke blind. Through Skylar's phantasms. Through ice constructs launched from thirty feet away. And he didn't slow down.
Natalia felt Isabelle move through her ice field, the wind user circling wide to approach from Satori's blind spot. Good. Isabelle was adapting. Isabelle was doing exactly what a partner should do.
But Natalia wasn't watching Isabelle.
