There was much food. For each dish, a question. The questions showed their ignorance of the Axe, and some of them even what a System truly was.
"The Axe doesn't require that."
"A single soul is not intended to run multiple Systems at once."
"I didn't invent the System terminology; I've just learned some of the commands."
"I never said it was the only way; I just said it's how I've managed that."
The first healing potion, I pulled from my inventory and swallowed with a single gulp.
There was a reflexive tightening at the sides of my throat, and my vision swam, and when it returned there were still three holy men. The Spy, the Conman, and a new one, the Jester.
I massaged the sides of my neck, where veins and arteries came so close to contact. Two breaths, each of which seemed like gasping dead algae water into my lungs.
Okay, THIS was supposed to happen in Crafter. I just got so very tired of remaining ten pages behind in terms of logs.
Incidentally, the [Restart Life] feature turned out to be more costly than I'd planned, but I can live with that and Rhishi has to.
I also considered just having the Temple execute him, but I'm happy with what I came up with.
And, it isn't what he lost that will turn out to be important, it will be what he kept. But that's for next chapter.
As always, thank you for your readership, it's kept me going through dark times, through life events, and most recently the death of my laptop.