Whatever Kate said got lost in the haze of the spell being cast, and he barely felt her bumping into him. There was a split second just as the spell started to work where Billy realized it wasn't going to. Whatever the Skrulls did to knock Kate into him (because she wouldn't do that if she could help it, Billy knew) had broken his concentration. It didn't matter that it was only a bump-- even lesser distractions were still distractions.
A split second wasn't enough time to do anything, though, even when Billy stopped chanting. The o-zone taste in the back of his throat, the hair on the back of his neck standing up, a bunch of other little tell tale signs meant the spell had been cast, and once that happened, Billy couldn't stop it.
"Oh, shi--"
There was a brilliant flash of blue-white magic, and while there was no physical blast to knock him back, Billy still stumbled into Kate, dazed. He'd never had so much of his energy backfire, and dimly, Billy hoped he hadn't just doomed innocent people into being scattered across the battlefield.
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A split second wasn't enough time to do anything, though, even when Billy stopped chanting. The o-zone taste in the back of his throat, the hair on the back of his neck standing up, a bunch of other little tell tale signs meant the spell had been cast, and once that happened, Billy couldn't stop it.
"Oh, shi--"
There was a brilliant flash of blue-white magic, and while there was no physical blast to knock him back, Billy still stumbled into Kate, dazed. He'd never had so much of his energy backfire, and dimly, Billy hoped he hadn't just doomed innocent people into being scattered across the battlefield.