Gipsy can hear the countdown just as well as he can; she's anticipating it.

Neural handshake in 3...2...1....

Gipsy slams into him -- it's instant, automatic and she's not thinking. For a very brief moment in time, everything Gipsy is feeling crashes into him. Panic, confusion, pain and anger, frustration and rage and loneliness and a feistiness she'd forgotten she'd had.

Immediately she realizes what she's done and she jerks herself back, dragging her consciousness away from him and locking down 90% of all of her emotions.

I am so sorry.