Narrator wrote:The man stumbles back from the headbutt, only after she shakes off the daze noticing and clutching his side, swaying sluggishly for a moment before his head snaps up, hair falling out as his eye-sockets, brow and rest of his head grows some kind of chitinous carapace. And when he moves towards Leo again he's much faster, like he'd just been injected with a shot of straight adrenaline rather than Leo's sedative poison. He's too small compared to Leo to go for a headbutt so instead he just drives his now-armored head into his stomach.
Leo had just enough time to wonder what the hell just happened before having the wind knocked out of him. His mass kept him from being bowled over, but he stumbled back in daze. It was a few precious seconds before he could continue. Seconds he most certainly didn't have.