Lunch time

Kaden sighed. He had hoped that this would be the end of it and he would have taken care of everything once and for all. He closed his eyes for a few seconds, letting out a wry chuckle. There he was, again thinking like a loser.

He was on the death bed and he somehow made it out alive. He had tricked a dragon that wanted to eat him alive and made it flee with barely a scrap of its health left. He had even gained so much in the process.

There was no need to throw a pity party now. He needed to get up and take another step forward. He needed to tally his gains and losses and see where to go from here.

"Fuck it." Kaden gave himself a mental pep talk and stood up. The swirls of miasmic mist were making him slightly giddy. "I need to get the hell out of here." He almost started climbing when he realized he had forgotten something.

Kaden's lips curled into a grin, his eyes gleaming with excitement as he took in the carnage around him for the second time.