[ pain lancing through his legs like lightning, but the red sparks keeping aside the white haze closing in on his vision and she's saying more but he can barely make out--- focus on--- ]

.....haahh.... hahhh... hnk--

[ --show her, have to show her--

--and he lurches forward, his foreshortened elbow slamming against the doorframe to brace against as his only hand snaps out to grab her bare arm. ]