Nita had been trying to find a panel (whether to contact the Helpmates or just shut them down to simplify cleanup elsewhere, she hadn't decided yet) when a whole cluster of the things - did Helpmates even have a name when it came to traveling in groups? - had ganged up on her.

And since running a complete shield around herself when she was cornered seemed a bad idea-

Not that she got to linger on it long before Lele came in to save the day.

"Lele! Eva, I'm on it. It's just-"

She points. "Under that pipe! I'll have to crawl; you think you can hold them?"

The other initial problem having been balancing both fiddling with the panel and maintaining any shield with any level of clarity.