“This is going to hurt,” I informed him as I adjusted myself down into a batter’s stance. “Well, I think that if you were to use the root over there as leverage,” started Shart. He was right; that probably would have worked. I used an alternative method of striking him about the head until he finally, on the sixth swing, broke free. He landed with a groan, “why did you do that.” “I said it was going to hurt; I didn’t say it had to,” I replied.
