*Heiji likes zig zags. He's perfectly okay with zig zags. He has to duck and roll again, losing a bit of ground in order to avoid a snap of teeth. He was impressed with himself, certainly, his reflexes were brilliant, and after a moment he realizes he can feel the displacement of the water on his skin.

Smacking the serpent again, twice, he risks another dive around the creature to tangle it and lose himself in its coils again, skating across the ground finally to make it into the forest, heading for where he saw Hakuba*