Niks felt the dagger scratching against his bone and altered its course. The dagger's course was still in its original way enough that it burned a cut into his soulfire's binding and Niks could feel his soul starting to [i]trickle[/i] away in a steady stream. He tried to push his opponent away before seeing her inhaling the Soul Rot and subsequently collapsed. Between her sudden stumbling and trying to grab a hold on him and his trying to push away, it led to the two of them pushing each other away. To be specific, Niks pushing himself away before his opponent's hand grabbed onto his arm and squeezed hard enough that his bone started to bent, and as both was fairly unbalanced for this, it led to to the two of them falling down to the ground.

Between the leak on his soul fire and suddenly falling down, Niks was immobilized momentarily as he tried to hold down the shock and attempting to patch the leak, unsuccessfully.