K is for KO'd
Tanith had never been so surprised to wake up in a hospital with many a broken bone and practically riddled with bruises.
Ghastly had smiled sheepishly at her from the window-seat. She had glared. "You said your mother could throw a punch. You didn't mention that she would throw a punch."
"If you pardon me, I think it may be your own fault, for insulting her on the grounds that she was weak because she didn't fight unnecessarily."
"Shut up."
KO |ˌkāˈō| informal Boxing
Noun
A knockout in a boxing match.
A/N: I was randomly searching through the dictionary for K words and stumbled across KO'd, so… I immediately thought of Ghastly, and his mother's boxing habits. Then I thought of Tanith, and her issues with being knocked out in every book. Poor Tanith.
…And I am aware that Ghastly is a statue. I just ignored that little plot-blocking fact.
...It was orginally Ghastly knocking Tanith around. But then I was like "no." and changed it to his mom.