After a while, one of Ning's throws finally caught the instructor beside Lorna squarely in the leg.
The cadets on the floor exploded into cheers, but Ning barely had time to register the hit. He had thrown the ball at the far end of a swing, with the rope pulled taut and Naysha already moving in the opposite direction, and the force of the throw sent both of them spinning.
They tumbled together through the air, the rope wrapping around them, with nothing to slow their rotation and no wall close enough to catch.
Lorna did not hesitate.
She threw, and the ball flew straight toward the two of them as they spun. With their bodies rotating so quickly, there was no telling which of them it would strike, and it might just as easily have been Ning as Naysha. In the end, it caught Naysha on the shoulder as she came around.
It was more luck than skill, and Lorna probably knew it, but a hit was a hit.
