Again, size of the field and distance are the issue because I don't know and you don't know, hence why I'm asking. I assumed the teachers are off to the side because so far the teachers were treated as being fairly far-removed, so Meilin making a dash in order to beat out the heatwave seems implausible even for a trained sprint.

As for the shockwaves, yeah that's really cool but if you mean using them for making the dash more plausible there's really nothing in her powers as given that even indicates she might able to do this. It's not really blocking the heatwave that's the issue, not sure if that's physically possible but within the genre it's plausible for her to do it with her powers as they are. It's more that I don't know if she could've plausibly made the dash at all.

I mean, no one's reacted to it yet so there's still time to edit with minimal hassle if it comes down to it. It's not like I'm trying to take away your character doing cool things but this was kinda like, there's already 3 characters actively involved with the situation at closer ranges that you're magically out-reacting here. Four if we count Terri. And the whole setup was kinda meant for the newcomers to do their thing in the first place...