What The Crux Is That?!

"Jash!" Nelphy shouted. "Jash are you–"

"I'm okay…"

Coughing lightly, Jash sighed and opened his eyes. But Jash didn't need his eyes to feel the sudden lack of static lightning in the air. "... Does this mean… we won?" 

Nelphy smiled. She relaxed her worried muscles and continued to heal Jash with steady, controlled breaths. 

"That's right. And it was you two who finished him off," Zac commented while slowly walking toward the others. 

Kriff was too exhausted to do anything else. He just plopped down on the ground and sat there, glancing at the distant barricade battles with an accomplished smile. A single thought went was swelling, gradually filling his mind, *... Assignment accomplished…*

Bolton, on the other hand, was paying close attention to Zac's unhealed body. Piecing everything together, Bolton spotted a section of stone missing from where Zac had been laying down. So Bolton asked, "What did you do to your staff?"