[thom doesn't answer her right away. his eyes are closed tight and his fingers are spread wide and pressed hard into the ground in an attempt to quell the tremors, muttering a string of strange names under his breath.

after a moment he lifts his head up and cracks his eyes open with a grimace.] It's. Like an overload or... [his hands are shaking now despite the pressure he's putting on them, and the sparks and tingles are quickly spreading up his arms and thom's pretty sure he's not going to count himself out of this attack.

not this time.]

'm gonna have... a seizure. [he warns cecily, because he knows it can be a kind of scary thing to witness for the first time.] I'll be fine just... just wait for the. shaking to stop okay?

[one breath and another and then the shaking consumes his whole body, and sorry about all this cecily, he's gonna be a little while.]