"I didn't know you could do that. The floating, I mean. Is it a new thing or just something you can only do when you've got an adrenaline rush?"

He has to keep him talking. Ilya keeps his fingers resting lightly to Dolemeck's head, even though the state of Dolemeck's body is making him want to be sick. And he's not sure why, but he has a brief pang of hunger, which is so out of nowhere he's beginning to wonder if he was hit and didn't realize it yet. Everything is so wrong he wishes that it was all just a nightmare. Ilya shudders, feeling cold.