*drops the too-heavy skillet to the floor and crumples along with you, his legs giving way beneath him* *finds himself sitting up against the stove in a daze, limbs gone limp and awkward* *spends a moment just breathing, fighting off the strong urge to keel over and let those grey-dark flickers take him*
*presses the back of his hand gingerly beneath his throbbing nose* C-carol? *struggles to rise, gripping the oven handle for leverage* *tries to force a little more volume* Carol??