Once she's put herself in place around him, she hunches over a little under the weight of his power. There's a lot of him, and the outside force pulling at him is relentless, but she knows she can do this. After all, she once contained an exploding time station without bursting, this is manageable in comparison.

At his relief washing through them she looks up, a shaky smile spreading on her face. "Perhaps later," she replies with a weak attempt at humor, mostly because it occurs to her he can use the assurance that there's going to be a later. Taking another breath, she continues more seriously, "Do you think you can wake up? We can try to maintain the connection." She's not at all sure if that would work without the telepathic current linking them, but they are very closely entwined right now and neither of them can keep this up forever just waiting for the attack to stop on its own. "If it fails, you could come back."