His fingers snag the hem of a dress and she snarls an inhuman sound at him as she tries to kick out at his shoulder. A kick that's too hard and too sharp for a normal little girl.

The sound of weight shifting and wood groaning followed by the tumble of flesh on wood seizes Garner's throat and heart. "Jaeger!"

No. He needs to end this. The sooner he ends this, the sooner his friend is safe. Mercy's warning rings through his mind, her assertion the 'countdown' over his head was dwindling. Very well. If it was him or Jaeger, the answer was never in doubt.

"Let go!" Her sharp kick tears through his shoulder wet and bright in pain and a second one tears through the skin on his cheek and through part of his ear as he dodges as best he can while holding on. Something causes her to tense as Ava's attention shifts to Jaeger. "What- What are you doing?" She calls down to him, some fear entering her voice.

The bloodhunter uses the distraction and pulls on her as his glaive comes up to bury into her gut and he arches around to pin the girl and the blade into the stairs as they begin to shift and crumble beneath them. "Jaeger...Wake up!" Garner calls.