All right--try and stamp your feet a little first, and give me your hand. [There's a method to this seeming madness--she can get a small kinetic shield under both of Manabu's feet, and he won't sink back before she can get him into the tree. Renee's tempted to just throw him there--the fabled yeeting!!--but at the moment, there's a part of her chalking that up as a bad idea. He's clearly got a bag of stuff that he might not want stuck in the muck, after all.

Maybe another time.

Once Renee's got the shield under his feet, she pauses.]

Okay, I'm gonna pick you up and you need to hold on, okay? [Clearly he is not the only one who starts and finishes a sentence with the same word!]