[He'll flinch at the flick and then give a slight glare.]

If I had wanted to kill her, I wouldn't have flung her into a wall, that's for sure. Not when I have a myriad of other ways to do so. I had meant to merely knock the wind out of her with a blow to the abdomen, and then knock her unconscious with a blow over the head. I estimated her weight wrong and thus applied too much force. It was an error on my part, yes, but still an accident.

[B| And he's planning on finding her and apologizing as soon as he can.]