Showing the Ropes

@"King"

As soon as the blow connected Murphy knew something had gone wrong. Not only did he feel like he'd just tried to uppercut a cinder block, causing dull pain to shoot up his arm, but he'd twisted into the punch without realizing it, throwing him off balance and causing him to crumple to the ground. To further worsen things he attempted to catch himself with the hand that he'd practically shattered on her arm, turning the dull burning to explode in burning agony. He bit back a variety of curses and curled up in on himself, waiting for the pain to pass away. "Bloody hellfire..." was all he could manage.

@"King"

Murphy sucked in a pained breath as he curled up around his hand. Didn't feel like anything was broken, but he almost wished it was so he could manage to get some of the high power pain killers to numb the damn thing. Milk said something from above him but the burning agony had replaced his hearing with a high pitched ringing. “Wha?” he hissed as he rolled onto his back and stopped as he found himself face to face with her kneeling just above him.

@"King"

“Oi, the hell are you-” he sighed in resignation as she hefted him up and began trotting off somewhere. It wasn't nearly as dignified as he hoped to appear on his first day at the school, but he wasn't going to tell her to put him down... she'd likely do so abruptly and he didn't feel like trying to catch himself again. “Er, thank you Milk. Where are we heading?”