Redsand Canyon you enter at your own risk, so don't be surprised

Without further ado, the spar ended.

It happened in an explosion of mind-numbing pain, the kind that burst forth in his groin and then traveled in to his belly, where it would linger. He staggered backwards and nearly tripped himself on one of the woman's limbs as he became this haphazard thing; wanting at once to vomit, and to shout, and yet unable to do either.

The woman's voice was scathing and accusatory, not that he could hear her. The pain brought an abrupt silence to his ears that Glaukos couldn't purge. In the next few moments he was buckled against the ground, curling in to himself at first. When that didn't ease anything he tried to stand tall and stretch his back legs out, thinking it was some kind of cramp - but any slight movement only brought more of the ache to the forefront.

It would eventually ease, of course. It had been a very low blow - one well deserved by anyone else's standards, strong enough to puncture a hole in his own ego. As Glaukos recovered against the earth he glared at the woman, but couldn't say anything yet.