Kaira studied the sensor readouts. The four ships were spread out, with one further from the Glimmer than the others. Their layout meant there was no obvious direction to run in, any path the Glimmer took would mean at least one ship could close quickly.
There was no way she could avoid all of the ships. In fact, if she stayed where she was there was no way she could avoid any of them. In the long run that was true anyway, all of them were significantly faster than the Glimmer, but she could at least buy some time.
She could do that best by heading in the general direction of the furthest ship. That would increase the time the other three ships took to be in a position to fire, and still give the longest time before the ship she chose to head for could do the same. She poured power
