The golem's mass carried it past the fox's position, the forward commitment having occupied the path that Lin had vacated, and the golem's own momentum became the problem that following momentum became when it did not find the target it was aimed at — the mass continuing beyond the intended contact point, the deceleration requiring the distance that the golem's mass needed to decelerate.
Lin was behind it before it stopped.
The water came from the fox's mouth again.
All of it this time, not the measured, sustained output that had been working across the engagement's arc but the full capacity of the fox's ability, directed at the golem's back at the specific location where the three individual golems' structural centers had merged when the merging happened.
The convergence point of all three forms' mass.
