Even after everything the Thieving Bird had been subjected to — the three curses, the combined assault of two Supreme holders of Divine Aspects, the Death Will channeled through the Slaying Blade, the cleansing cruelty of Neph's flame — it was still refusing to die.
Its vitality was simply too inexhaustible, and its determination to exist was too deep.
Not even committing a blunder and stealing Sunny's desire to kill it and his rationale for doing so — and therefore compromising its own desire to live and rationale for wanting to stay alive — managed to topple the Thieving Bird profane Will. It was still better off than Sunny.
It was wounded, it was hurt... it was on the threshold of facing death, even. But no matter what Sunny did, he simply could not push it over that threshold.
And he did not have a lot of time left to continue trying.
