Eighty Two.

[Primordial Yin Essence +100]

[Primordial Yin Essence +100]

[Primordial Yin Essence +100]

[Primordial Yin Essence +100]

[Primordial Yin Essence +100]

[Primordial Yin Essence +1000]

[Primordial Yin Essence +1000]

[Primordial Yin Essence +1000]

[Primordial Yin Essence +1000]

[Primordial Yin Essence +1000]

[Primordial Yin Essence +10000]

The numbers kept rising.

Zeroes stacking—endlessly.

She opened her right eye.

Confusion.

Her gaze dropped to her chest.

The shard—fading.

Bit by bit.

And her wound—healing.

Flesh knitting. Energy stabilizing.

I just stood there.

The earlier pain gone—

And me, still awkwardly gripping the dying shard in her chest.

She blinked. Once. Twice. 

Her right eye—raw, red-rimmed—locked onto me. Then she looked down to her chest. 

The shard—once a pulsing—was dissolving. Bit by bit.