"..."
Silence descended upon the massive, circular room as Verc's sword pierced through the skeleton's skull. The violent echoes of their hours-long struggle finally died away.
Verc didn't move. In fact--
"GURGH...!"
He even drove the tip of his blade deeper into the skeleton's skull! He leaned his weight into the hilt, feeling the resistance of the ancient bone as the metal bit further into the hollow space. He wasn't taking any chances. After a fight that had pushed him to his physical and mental limits, he needed to make sure he landed the hit properly.
Then--
'D-Did I do it?'
Verc asked in his head, his eyes narrowed as he watched for any flicker in those empty sockets. But even after a few seconds—the skeleton still didn't move. It lay there, a heap of bones and tattered fabric, pinned to the floor by his steel.
