No, no, it's anyone who touches us who's on fire now
He didn't throw us off the train. We're also visibly wearing superior armor.
Taking this wouldn't change that. It speeds up the time to the next education trait, but the one after that is still a little less than 2 centuries away no matter what we pick here.
He probably sensed who was responsible for giving him that huge boost, that's why he jumped between vehicles and came here in the first place rather than escaping with the transport he was on or any of the others. So yes, I do think he did deliberately rescue us.
He wouldn't know how he was sensing it or be able to control what he senses, but being untrained doesn't mean he gets no information out of his senses when it's obvious enough. And a power activated with a roll of 452 and giving him a continuous greater fortune effect should be pretty obvious.
And there was also opposition on this vehicle that could kill him, until he threw that off. He did pick this particular vehicle to jump to, out of all the ones in the convoy. That at least suggests the possibility that he did it deliberately.
I expect he would feel strangely empowered, we would appear lighted up like a beacon and give him the same strange feeling, and the empowerment would feel stronger or more immediate as he gets closer.
The pistol was the only object we could identify, that doesn't mean there were no other weapons present. It doesn't seem like the opposition left on the transport would have been much more dangerous after he had already thrown off so many of them.
We don't know what other opportunities there may have been, whatever vehicles were directly in front or behind might also have been available.
Also of note is that Zael eventually became a Grey Knight, taking the name Hyperion. Hopefully this guy has a similarly auspicious destiny ahead of him.
