Editing The Siberian (section)

===Mobility===
The Siberian cannot fly.<ref>But I wouldn’t be able to kill Siberian.  She’d fought Alexandria, Legend and Eidolon at the same time and walked away unscathed.  She hadn’t been able to hurt them due to her inability to fly, but she’d still survived. - [[Plague 12.5]]</ref><ref name="13.6 eShatterbird" /><ref name="14.7 eDown" /> Although she lacks augmented acceleration and is slower than [[Mover]]s like [[Battery]] or [[Velocity]], the Siberian still has the physical power to move quickly, especially since she can ignore air resistance and minimize inertia.<ref name="14.7 eArrow" /><ref>Something caught her attention.  A vibration in the road?  Or had she used her power to protect the ground, and sensed some impact as the dogs walked on it?<br><br>Either way, she started to chase us.  We could have turned at a right angle, to hopefully throw her off, but both Grue and I knew that if we did, and she continued straight, she’d run straight into Amy.<br><br>''Fast''.  She was fast.  Not as much as Battery or Velocity might have been on a good day, but highly mobile. - [http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/09/08/prey-14-2/ Excerpt] from [[Prey 14.2]]</ref><ref name="13.6 eRunCarry" /> When she attempted to catch [[Legend]], [[Skitter]] compared her leaps to an arrow loosed from a bow.<ref name="14.7 eArrow">Either way, it was better to try to catch his attention with a written message: ’20 CIVILIAN, JS, BS, SIB’.<br><br>He was too distracted by Siberian to see it.  She wasn’t as fast as Battery or Velocity, but she had the physical power to move quickly, and she was leaping between buildings to throw herself at him with the speed and aim of an arrow shot from a bow. - [[Prey 14.7]]</ref> She is seen gliding in a few cases to make huge leaps:<ref name="SB726" /> she can leap across a city block (i.e., 300 feet<ref>She’s described her range as [...] city blocks. A city block is about 300 feet long. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/chrysalis-20-1/#comment-13946 Comment by] Wildbow on [[Chrysalis 20.1]]</ref>) in a single bound.<ref>The thought clicked into the blank I was looking to fill.  How was her alter ego getting around?  I’d assumed he was traveling on foot because that was how ninety-percent of the city was getting by.  Very few cars on the road had access to gas and the ability to traverse the broken, flooded streets.  But if there was a range limit to the projection, how was he keeping up with the woman who could ignore air resistance and leap across a city block in a single bound? - [http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/09/08/prey-14-2/ Excerpt] from [[Prey 14.2]]</ref> The Siberian can travel faster than [[Bitch's dogs]],<ref>''Shit, shit, shit, shit''.  What options did we have?  Running?  Siberian was bound to be faster than the dogs, and none of them were big.  We’d be dead before Bitch got them to grow.  That was even without considering Jack’s ability to cut us down from where he stood. - [[Plague 12.4]]</ref> [[Crawler]],<ref>“Then there’s Crawler, who visited us the other night.  Maybe not as fast or agile as Siberian, and he ''can'' be contained, but he can’t be taken off the board.  A special rook.” - [[Plague 12.3]]</ref> and [[Shatterbird]].<ref name="13.6 eShatterbird">The first way this could play out was that Shatterbird’s flight over the buildings would make her faster than Crawler or Siberian, who had to climb or circumvent the obstacles.<br><br>When I’d brought this up during the meeting, assuming it would happen, it had been Tattletale who pointed out that I was maybe underestimating how fast Crawler and Siberian could be.  She was right.  Despite her ability to fly, Shatterbird was falling behind. - [[Snare 13.6]]</ref>

On one occasion, she was in close proximity and on the same road as [[Tattletale]], [[Trickster]], [[Sundancer]], [[Grue]], [[Skitter]], [[Panacea]], [[Bentley]], and [[Sirius]].<ref name="14.2 eGroupConfront">My respect for Grue grew a hundredfold as he veered straight for Amy without my asking him to.  We swept past her, and I caught her around the shoulder.  Grue offered one hand, and we lifted her together, kicking and struggling, onto my lap.  I wrapped one arm around her chest, to keep her securely in place.  She was breathing hard, almost hyperventilating.<br>[...]<br>Siberian closed the gap in a single bound, crashing into Bentley, Lisa, Trickster and Sundancer and shoving them forward into the rest of us.  We sprawled, and I felt my leg bend painfully as Sirius rolled over it.<br><br>Grue banished his darkness.  I could see the six of us and the two dogs, lying on the road. Nobody dead.<br><br>And there was Siberian.  Faintly glowing eyes, black and white striped skin, straight hair in similar variations of black and white, trailing to her tailbone. - [http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/09/08/prey-14-2/ Excerpt] from [[Prey 14.2]]</ref> However, if she lunged for them after Tattletale revealed they knew about her [[Siberian's Master|secret]],<ref name="14.2 eSecretReveal">And, as it turned out, she wanted to talk.  She pulled herself up to a standing position and raised one hand, palm facing Siberian.  “Hold on.”<br><br>Siberian stopped.<br>[...]<br>“Reason number two, we’re aiming to kill you.  See, we know about your… other self.”<br><br>There wasn’t the slightest reaction from Siberian.<br><br>“And the third reason, I think you should know, is sort of tied into the first.  We’re making you waste time.  Longer you take to kill Panacea, here, the better off we are.  Awfully arrogant of you to leave your team and go off to pick off candidates like Amy.  The rest of your team?  Crawler, Jack, Mannequin and Bonesaw?  Right this second, they’re getting a surprise visit from the rest of ''our'' team.  What do you think-”<br><br>Siberian flickered and disappeared.  Tattletale’s jaw dropped. - [http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/09/08/prey-14-2/ Excerpt] from [[Prey 14.2]]</ref> despite the group not yet knowing its location,<ref>I shouldn’t have been looking for people.  I should have been looking for ''vehicles''.  Had I overlooked anything like a truck or a van interior he could be hiding inside?  Or was he still in a location outside of my range?  Or -I wasn’t ignoring the possibility- had Cherish lied or misled us?<br><br>''Damn it''!  The extra possibility threw my hopes of finding the man totally out of whack. - [http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/09/08/prey-14-2/ Excerpt] from [[Prey 14.2]]</ref> the Siberian would actually lose this fight as she would not be fast enough to kill them before they found and dealt with her secret.<ref>'''Artful Lounger:''' Also, I'd like to ask a question. Worm survives about eighty percent of the time by author caveat, there's no way that the Undersiders would have succeeded the way they did without it. But I'd like to point out a particular moment. So Tattletale is just telling the Siberian everything and everyone is just standing there, off of the dogs. Did anybody else think that this is the moment where they honestly should have died?<br><br>We saw Siberian cross half a city block with a step, and she doesn't even need to strike you, she just needs to run into you. Did anybody else think that, rather than letting all of these enemies who know her most important secret live, she should have just taken one step forward and pulped everyone instead of immediately cancelling the aparition?<br><br> I just wanted to point it out because while it isn't the biggest and most tense moment, this is a moment where the Undersiders came a razor's edge from dying horribly and only survived because the story needed them to.<br><br>'''Wildbow:'''  If Siberian was stupid and lunged for them, ''that'' would have been me throwing the characters a bone and handing the idiot ball to Siberian. It would have been a brief and frantic fight before Manton got killed for a tepid finish. Terribly boring. - Conversation with Wildbow on Sufficient Velocity, [https://spacebattles.com/posts/33897007 archived on Spacebattles]</ref>