Niks cursed as fire streamed from the short girl's nose, their close proximity meant the fire blew against his lower spine and he could feel the flame licking at his soul fire as he tried to dodge it as fast as he could by stumbling to his right. It was not a simple fire, much like most dragon fire. Much to his chagrin, the girl then shown that she was at least an adept at fire manipulation by creating a dagger of magical fire. He thought she was an adept from how it flickered in her grasp, though he didn't know how much of it was from her lack of control or from the miasma induced sickness. He assumed it was largely the former as he had saw some mages doing their specialty even when they were under Miasma's influence with more control than she was showing at the moment. Regardless, the dagger brought another consideration for him to stay away from the girl before she laid writhing on the ground. 

Between her sneezing fire and creating the dagger, a small gap was formed between them from Niks avoiding the sneeze and the girl focusing on creating the dagger. It wasn't large enough to his liking as the meatsack would still be able to cross it quickly with her new knife. He would have to prepare something then. He inhaled and his soul fire dimmed as a small amount of green fog covered it. He should be able to spray it directly at her if she was to attempt to charge at him now.