Johnny feels a much sharper jerk of pain when the man catches her, freezes her, it's like ice in his blood, he can still feel her but she can't talk, can't run, can't come back to him. He releases her but the lizard has her now, locking her down.

"Don't-" he protests, breathless, pain still pounding in his chest - she's still just a little too far from him, held at the edge now, and it is with considerable effort that he looks up, reaches both his hands toward the man and seizes him by the lapels of his stupid jacket. Yeah he's powerful, that was sort of obvious wasn't it? He doesn't care, it isn't like he's a stranger to putting himself in the direct path of malicious forces far greater than him. "Let her go," he says between his teeth.