The shaking had been just what was needed to take the center of gravity and shift it from on the window ledge, causing the heavily sleeping Glitch to topple right over and onto the floor and anything else in the way, the book that had been hidden in his lap landing a few feet away. It wasn't the shaking that had finally roused the sleeper, but the sudden impact of colliding with a hard surface.
"Ow!" was the only thing he uttered as reality came far too quickly for him to really register what was going on.