The conclusion
'Is this what boxers feel when they get punched in the face?' Leo wondered as he couldn't feel his feet beneath him.
As a kid, he had often watched boxers fight on the old TV in the corner of the room and remembered how their legs would sometimes wobble and betray them after a particularly fierce blow to the head.
It was as if their bodies were momentarily disconnected from their minds and their muscles refused to obey even the simplest commands.
Leo had seen it in slow motion, the way a boxer's eyes would glaze over, their stance faltering as their legs turned to jelly.
The commentators would call it being "on wobbly legs," a state where the brain struggled to send clear signals to the rest of the body.
While he had never understood it fully back then, but now, with his own head throbbing and his vision swimming, he could feel that same disconnect firsthand.