tear me to pieces, skin to bone

Loren handled it by ignoring it, basically. Catching the heaviest blocks without complaint even when they made him stagger, taking the blows from the shovels and the elbows with just the occasional grunt, not responding to the dark looks, he just kept at the work. Astra bleated reproachfully at the workers, and then glanced at Korbin, clearly displeased. Even that wasn't enough to get Loren to react. Instead, he just continued to do what he could. He dug in the most unstable looking areas, tackled the biggest pieces of debris on his own without prompting, and didn't take a break. Instead, he just accumulated cuts and bruises and muscle aches, without any sign of it showing. LOREN Not quite an open book