Her first impulse was to answer his first question, but fortunately the second, more important one registered before she could get too thoroughly distracted. "Yeah!" She gave a quick nod and tossed up another screen, this one a curved shield that deflected the next burst of acid, redirecting it to spray around them.

"So should I just keep this up? 'Cuz I can do that for maybe twenty more seconds!" Though the centipede's continued attacks would probably make that harder.