"Sure, joke. I'd like to see how you would hold up if that thing got its tentacle around your leg. Maybe if you were too busy sniveling in pain over broken bones then you wouldn't be able to nag like your species seems to have such a penchant for." Algidus stared down at his ankle as he tested putting weight on it. He really didn't want to exacerbate the crack to the point where he was leaving chunks of his ankle in his wake... but he didn't have a whole lot of choice, here. Hopefully it would hold up.

He stepped over to the corpse with just the slightest of limps, clearly caught between wanting to be careful and yet not wanting to seem bothered by it. At least it wasn't in his nature to complain about things like this. Grabbing the dead beast by its face, he hoisted it up without much effort at all.

"Let's get a move on."