บท 306: Victory or not?

"Boring." the deity of lies chuckled. 

On the wall, Scarlet continued going strong and she scaled past the last crossing point, without even realizing. 

Suddenly, she just found herself on the ground, exactly where she had vanished from. The first though on her mind was that she had failed, and somehow been eliminated, but she couldn't figure out how that happened. Where exactly had she gone wrong? 

"Severus," she called out. 

"Down here." the hound replied. 

He observed her, looking for a white flag in her hands or any sign of injury. It was not uncommon to come down from the wall with scrapes, tears and bleeding from a spot or two. Almost every reaper bled or left a drop of blood on that wall. 

"What happened?" she asked. 

"I should be asking you that?" he answered. "You have been on the wall for an entire day and a half."