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Captain Wei getting back on her feet helped calm Chie's nerves ever-so-slightly, desperately clinging onto people as she was in the moment. The captain didn't have to tell Chie twice to stick close, the teenage girl tailing her like a puppy would tail the litter's mother. Her heart was beating so [i]fast[/i].

Wei was aiming for the stairwell and Chie figured that out pretty quickly, so a bit of hope was able to take root in her heart. Unfortunate for her, then, that it wouldn't last long before being weeded out again. She'd all but forgotten about the attackers for a minute, despite the fact Chie really should know better at this point, so she was unprepared for the creaking from above. At first she ignored it, but then a piece of rubble fell in front of her eyes. Chie let out a brief shriek of shock and surprise, her eyes darting up above. She saw the panels of the railstation coming loose. Not only that, but one of them seemed to be right above her. "Ah... aaah..." she muttered fearfully, reason briefly escaping her as she felt herself paralyzed. It fell and Chie tried to shield herself, closing her eyes. A loud [i]crash[/i] rang out, but Chie felt herself unharmed. When she opened her eyes again, two parts seemed to have fallen; A set of displays blocking the party's path forward, and a piece of paneling that hit the soldier behind her.

At that point, Chie briefly forgot about her attackers and escape both. She rushed over to the soldier's side, crouching down next to him much like she had done for Wei. "I-It's okay... it's okay, I can get you out of this, so please get up...!" she desperately told the soldier. Chie didn't have a lot of time to save them, even if she didn't realise that herself. There was [i]one[/i] thing she could do to help out, something only [i]she[/i] could. Making a snap decision, she attempted to gather whatever traces of Nox that were in the area. It pooled at the edge of her hands, flowing into the ground beneath the soldier and Chie both. [i]Something[/i] was changing. The weight of the paneling seemed to drain out of it, as if it were a sack gradually oozing sand. It felt like the floor was starting to push [i]against[/i] the body of the soldier, rather than having it be something needed to push back against.

Unfortunately, Chie wasn't particularly versed in her magic, nor did she have the benefit of channeling like an Ars Magi would. She'd given the soldier some literal breathing room and, if they had enough strength, the ability to push themselves off the floor. More than this, however, was too much to ask of the girl. She couldn't make the floor beneath them feel weightless and floaty, even though she wanted to. Not only did Chie foolishly exhaust herself a fair bit by trying, but whatever Nox she was able to gather had all but been used up.

Chie had also stopped running for the exit to do this. She was too focused on saving the soldier, forgetting all about trying to escape.