[You have received Blood Crystal]
[You have received Aberration Scale]
[You have received a legendary-grade item: Eye of Nyxoth]
I stared at the messages for a moment, though I couldn't be bothered to check them.
All I wanted was rest. Whatever I'd won for killing an impossible beast could wait, and I let it wait, gladly.
The profane serpent was dead, and the quiet it left behind was the loudest thing in the cave.
I stayed on my knees a while. My legs had filed their resignation the moment the last of the essence left me, and standing was a negotiation I wasn't ready to open. So I knelt on the wet green-lit stone with Wren gone quiet across my palms, and I let the shaking come, now that there was nothing left to spend it on.
Then, because kneeling forever wasn't a plan, I took the bill.
