As Lily’s battle-buddy took her time swinging around and setting up for another run, the flustered unicorn tried to mentally analyze the situation so far -- a pattern of miss after miss after miss. Sparkshower wasn’t dodging, so it must be Lily’s aim -- but she wasn’t consistently either over-leading or under-leading her target. In fact, now that Lily thought about it, whenever Artemis attacked from the front, her rounds went short, and whenever the pegasus came from the rear, they went long.