It doesn't entirely register who it is that grabs him, only that it's one more barrier between him and saving a friend who risked his neck to get him back to safety. Blind to all but panic and the need to save one of the few he's met here he connected with so quickly-

"Let- go of me!" Augh, curse the black mage's notoriously weak physical strength stat! Because the moment he's out of his own memories, all his powers are gone, leaving only the asterisks. Yet when the doors close, he feels as though reality hit him like one of their blizzaga grenades. Especially as it registers who it is holding him back, and a shaky breath leaves him.

"But- He's my friend, too, Specs!" he nearly shouts, but exhaustion is taking its toll as some of the fight leaves him. "I have to-"

He can't leave him out there like that.