If he didn't know her as well as he does, she'd be pressed up against a wall with his hand at her throat. But he does. And he can tell easily enough that her confusion was genuine. Which meant that either she was acting unconsciously or someone else was acting on him remotely in a way he couldn't sense until it was happening.

All the same, he takes the moment to suck in a breath.

"Something just made me... very ill."