Anaximander crossed to the dead and looked down at them, and began to help.
Noah stood in the middle of a field of corpses and took one more breath of it. There was a human satisfaction in standing in the aftermath of a thing he had done with almost no effort, and he let himself have it a moment longer. Brutal as the field was, it was human too. Humans were bloody. Humans were not always pretty.
Hvitrmarr walked over to him the ordinary way, on four legs across the ruin. Without her authority she was still enormous, and she crushed corpse after corpse flat beneath her without noticing she did it. On the ridge of her spine Ryaenara held on and did everything she could not to be thrown off a moving reptile, looking down at Noah and shaking her head at the whole scene.
The grand prompts bloomed in front of him.
|Adversity resolved. THE Aura of THE Protagonist final tally for the engagement:|
Osmontian Biomass gained: 61,400,000.|
