#{when ur grandson breaks ur god damn nose mid spar but u still get up to have another go}

[cursefelled]

@cursegiven​ said: [ deck ]   your muse decking mine in the face. || ❥     𝐕𝐈𝐎𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐓  𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐄   𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍   𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐓𝐒   .

The pain is only half it, by comparison tame to the surprise; although having seen Simon fight so many times before should have made it obvious. The man’s strength is his fists as much as the whip itself, the full brunt of which having knocked Trevor not just off balance, not merely off his feet--but careening against the courtyard steps as bright, hot pain shatters behind his eyes.

It’s not until the sparks clear out of his sight that he notices blood rolling thick and dark down over his mouth.

“Ah...I see now why you choose your hands over the many other tools you were taught to use. Nothing so tried and true as what you are born with...” As a hand of Trevor’s own rises to smear away the red swelling from his nose.

As he rises still to his feet.