A day after beheading his minders, Rain, Myrti, and Sahaja were finally rested enough to explore the room above the stairwell. Sahaja had spent most of her time catastrophizing, while Myrti near-silently resumed her training.
Rain ignored their discomfort, thoroughly looting their dead handlers before tossing their bodies into the preceding room, where something dark was forming over the corpse of the chimera they'd killed.
He'd forgotten to take out its heartstone, and he wasn't going to risk it now. So while Myrti trained and Sahaja rocked back and forth holding her knees, Rain started to ferry the worthwhile treasures upstairs for sorting, leaving behind mostly copper coins and mundane equipment.
