As if in answer to the womams desperate prayers a man tore out of a nearby alleyway into the street between her in the child. He looked round wildly, saw the women trapped, followed her eyes toward the bundle, then let his eyes straight upward to the building that was even now starting to tumble down. He took a deep breath, then sprinted toward it.

He reached the infant, sliding like a pro base runner to scoop it up, just as he heard the crack of the building giving way. He spun on his heel and began desperately sprinting back as rubble started falling all around him like driving snow. He cleared his mind of all else but the sound of the rubble falling through the air, shutting out the stench of acrid smoke, the horrid glare of distant fire, the screams of mother and child. Like water he seemed to flow around the debris falling towards him without losing even a hint of speed until the final titanic and the rushing of wind and dust broke through to his mind. He hunkered down to the ground, cradling the child to protect him from any more flying rocks, and waited for the dust to clear.

He turned round to see the building smashed to pieces on the ground barely a few yards away. He smiled. "A miracle!" he shouted, turning to the fussy child cradled in his arms. "You see little one, if I had been but one moment later we both would have been pulp! But I was not late. I showed up precisely when I did. That is what is called a miracle!" 

The explanation of the nature of miracles did little for the childs mood. In fact having this large, red faced man shouting at it only seemed to increase its distress. Grigori frowned at this as he walked toward the woman. "Come now little one. You're mother is already worried sick. Show her a happy face, huh?" He faced a finger in the air, the tip of it glowing so faintly as to be impossible to see. He brought it down, tapping the babies nose with a light "boop." The change was almost instant. The baby quieted and looked confused for a moment, then its face broke into a wide grin that Grigori returned. "There, see?" 

He knelt and handed the the women her baby before moving to the Girder that had her trapped, taking a deep breath and gripping it with both hands to wrench it up and free her.