WHO: Karrin Murphy and OPEN WHAT: Thinking over her deal with the Fairy WHEN: Tuesday morning WHERE: The gym STATUS: Open/Ongoing WARNINGS: TBD/Likely none
Karrin hadn't talked to anyone much since she'd made her deal with Lily to save that kid. Even now, she thought it was the right thing to do, even though...well...she'd given up her love. And she was still coming to terms with exactly what that meant. One thing she knew? She didn't like it. When she thought about Harry, or her ex-husbands, or her family, there was just...an emptiness there. Not a complete absence, but the feeling that there had once been something there that had felt very good. That she'd treasured. And now it was empty. The thought of losing them...it wasn't something she wanted of course, but it didn't fill her with the same terror it used to. And that in itself scared her.
She'd been laying in bed all night worrying about just that, and finally around five am had given up. She wasn't going to be sleeping tonight, so hopefully at least she could do something more useful than lying in bed and worrying. So she got up, took a shower, and grabbed her gym bag, hoping she could work out some of her worries in her usual manner. It wouldn't hurt to keep herself in shape, anyway.
Half an hour on the treadmill, half an hour on the eliptical, half an hour doing weights, and then she spent the rest of the time practicing her martial arts moves on the punching bags while the men stared at her in awe. She grinned - that was exactly the effect she wanted to have on them, and it was good to see that they still knew when to be afraid of a tiny, cute, blonde woman.
Finishing up, she took a seat on a bench and wiped her face with a towel. She felt better, but of course, it hadn't solved the problem. She couldn't help but wonder if there was any way to fix it. If one of the other fairies could reverse it. But somehow a double deal with a fairy sounded even worse.
She looked up, watching another person attack the punching bag with their moves, and she frowned a little.
"No," she said, standing up and going over to them, an aura of authority around her even though she was tiny compared to almost everyone, "You're doing it all wrong. You've got to get your leg higher - and keep it straight."