I jumped over the divider, quickly eyeing whatever I could turn into a weapon. There wasn’t much. This wasn’t the sort of place to leave scalpels lying around. I’m no mage, so I couldn’t bring a spell to bear either. It seemed, in that long moment, that I was absolutely the wrong person for the job. Why had this magical creature come to me in hopes of protecting Choi? What advantage did she think I had over serious security muscle? While I was working to figure it out and darted across the short space between counters. The nurses were watching Choi screaming and fighting and didn’t notice me until I grabbed a chair and tossed it at the closest guard. It connected with his face and he staggered backwards bloody and surprised. The other one turned towards me, his face betraying confusion and anger. Choi broke loose of his grip and as soon as the man spun back to deal with Choi I leaped over the counter and drove my elbow into his temple.
It was a working plan. Not a very good one. Not working too well either.
He dropped to his knees with a grunt and I rode down to the ground with him, wrapping myself around him the way I’d trained to do. I had his airflow cut off in a matter of seconds, and I would’ve taken him down too had his partner decided to go after Choi right then.
He didn’t.
He tore me off his partner and slammed me to the floor. A gun appeared in his hand so quickly that it must have teleported there. Or maybe I was a little disoriented from being smashed to the ground. The security man screamed, “Don’t you fracking move!”
I didn’t.