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Nel was whipped around as her kick missed, then she was drug sideways, spinning her off-balance as the ID-SOL was propelled off his feet by the bullets.
The hit in her half throbbed and she lay on the floor blinking as she tried to process the feeling. She looked over at the giant hand still gripping her wrist. Reaching over with her left hand, Nel gave the guard's thumb several sharp pulls to the side, leaving the digit popped out of its socket so that it pointed away from the hand at a right angle. Then she did the same to the index and pinky fingers, removing enough of the grip to let her slide her arm out. The skin underneath was chaffed from all of the twisting that her arm had done under his fingers, but it was nothing serious.
Shots fired. Locate...
Nel glanced to the side at the man firing after Cyrene. Getting her feet back under her, she launched herself at him, keeping low and zig-zagging best she could with her damaged calf. When she got close enough, she brought up a hand with the heel of her palm held forward and her fingers half-curled above them, aiming for a straight-on hit at his nose. This, she decided, had to be the ID-SOL's weak spot. Neck was too well-muscled, eye sockets were too small to reach the brain, but the nose had little but bone on it. It had to work...She quickly adjusted to time her strike after Athrylis had finished her clip, then struck.