[That is an awful lot of intensely concentrated flame. It's like fighting a very, very good firebender. Katara met the first incoming blast of fire with a watershield, but she knew that she couldn't simply hold him for long - that much intensity could burn through water.
She didn't have the mobility she'd like, having to stay on point and make sure the shield guarded Masaomi and Shikamaru, but it didn't stop her from sending out a waterwhip to where the man had been standing from beneath her shield. If he'd stayed in the same place, and from the direction of the flame she thought he had, it should push him solidly back, causing the flameflower to go up and allowing her to advance and finish this.]
[Psych Ward Mayhem]
She didn't have the mobility she'd like, having to stay on point and make sure the shield guarded Masaomi and Shikamaru, but it didn't stop her from sending out a waterwhip to where the man had been standing from beneath her shield. If he'd stayed in the same place, and from the direction of the flame she thought he had, it should push him solidly back, causing the flameflower to go up and allowing her to advance and finish this.]