[...Yeah, that's not expected at all. While Leon was able to deal with the amount of water they ran into already without too much trouble...this much water is actually too much. Of course it is. It'd be too much for a normal person, much less someone who still has nightmares of the water crashing into the underground cavern, the one that swept him away and filled his lungs--
Leon pales, eyes widening, and immediately freezes in place--but she grabs his sleeve and that snaps him back to reality.
He's faster than her, of course; he's a trained soldier and she's a little girl, if one with a lot of pluck and gumption, and so he looks to the side just as she was and grasps her wrist tightly (tightly enough that it might leave bruises, but he doesn't have time to worry about that) and then he's sprinting, dragging her along with him on what's almost an automatic instinct, and diving the rest of the way off to the side, where a store wall will hopefully prevent the worst of it from hitting them.
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Leon pales, eyes widening, and immediately freezes in place--but she grabs his sleeve and that snaps him back to reality.
He's faster than her, of course; he's a trained soldier and she's a little girl, if one with a lot of pluck and gumption, and so he looks to the side just as she was and grasps her wrist tightly (tightly enough that it might leave bruises, but he doesn't have time to worry about that) and then he's sprinting, dragging her along with him on what's almost an automatic instinct, and diving the rest of the way off to the side, where a store wall will hopefully prevent the worst of it from hitting them.
But he can't just leave her.
Even to him, it'd feel...wrong.]