Okay, okay, that wasn't great. Pellets aren't anything like darts or bolts, and she already knows they don't hit that hard, but she really thought it would do more than that.

"Don't tell me you were holding out on me," Beau exclaims, skipping to the side and moving a little more erratically as she looks for something else to work with. "I can't handle a hippo toying with my heart, I don't think you're my type at all..."

Huh.

Okay, yeah. After his next volley - and she's dodging most of it, but some of it will probably hit - she's going to try rushing him and knocking at that pole. He got up there smoothly, but will he fall as smoothly?