I fell to the ground.
But I didn't land on the sand.
I landed on the floor of my room instead, the hard surface knocking the last bit of breath out of me before I even managed to register the transition.
Notifications drifted into view like they were mocking the state I was in.
[You have received a healing potion]
[You have received three free stat points]
[You have received one item]
I didn't move. I didn't even try. I just stayed there on the floor, staring at nothing, too drained and battered to care about anything else. My body felt like it had been scraped out and wrung dry, and the moment the adrenaline bled away, the exhaustion came crashing down in a slow, heavy wave.
I let my eyes close.
Sleep took me before I even knew I was falling into it.
