Re: log: hannah and ren
It took Hannah a few seconds to locate Ren in the chaos. She should be able to process quicker, but she was made to be entirely, entirely human, and that meant her default was to process as quickly and as slowly as anyone else. But, there, there he was, and she didn't immediately understand that he was focused on the barrels. She looked at him, looked and looked for blood or injury, and she saw none. It was reassuring, even in the face of the approaching man, and the boy on the table whimpered.
She began to pull on the boy, to tug, to free him of the table even if he couldn't free himself, and she missed the barrel beginning its roll. Luckily the large man, nearly at the table now and reaching out, didn't see the danger coming either. It was easy to miss, especially in a world where everything was now movement and screaming and trampling spectators underfoot.
Caught up in her task, she only noticed what was happening when the barrel neared enough to register as sound coming close. By the time she lifted her head, the young AI almost pulled entirely off the table now, the barrel slammed into the taller man. Balance lost, he shuffled around and tried to right himself, but there was nothing for it. He fell heavy, and he fell hard, and Hannah looked up top see Ren there and behind the fallen man. "Come here!" she called to him, because the boy from the table was tall, and Hannah could use the help.
And if Ren came, she left the boy a moment to stand in front of the man that was fighting to right himself on the ground. He was pushing himself up into a roll, and she planted a kick right beneath his chin. It was hard enough to make his teeth smack and mouth bleed, but it also knocked him back down, and Hannah hoped that was enough.
A young woman was approaching Ren, someone Hannah knew from her discussions on the internet, and she asked Ren to carry the boy out to her car. Hannah nodded and nodded, and she mouthed I'm sorry to Ren, because she really, really hadn't intended to drag him into this.