[He's paying more attention to the shard than his surroundings, but that doesn't mean he's completely unaware of what's happening, nor does he really miss the woman in grey suddenly rushing toward him; he doesn't have much time to really think about why Locke is dressed so strangely or where he's seen it before (though he knows for a fact that he has) before there's an explosion and she seems like she's going to tackle him, and of all course of actions she could have taken that's really very stupid and not something he would associate with Locke of all people -
...and that's about when it clicks in, that he's seen the grey and this particular brand of stupid in the same general area before and it was during one of these weird weekends, and he's just going to take this opportunity to jerk back and out of the way and pray that he can dex for shit today when he tries to grab her, both to stop her in general and keep her from faceplanting on the ground.
Because somehow he thinks she'd cry or something, and he is not in the mood to try to fix that today.]
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...and that's about when it clicks in, that he's seen the grey and this particular brand of stupid in the same general area before and it was during one of these weird weekends, and he's just going to take this opportunity to jerk back and out of the way and pray that he can dex for shit today when he tries to grab her, both to stop her in general and keep her from faceplanting on the ground.
Because somehow he thinks she'd cry or something, and he is not in the mood to try to fix that today.]