The warm air of Azure Prime hits my face the moment I cross the great doors of the library, and only then does the adrenaline start to recede.
Up until this point my body has been running purely on instinct and survival, held together by the simple fact that any hesitation in front of Dean or Rae will almost certainly mean my death. But now, away from the direct pressure of those two Abyssal auras, I feel the real weight of what has just happened settle onto me.
My knees almost buckle.
For a second I have to lock my legs to keep from showing weakness right there at the library's exit.
I breathe in deeply, once, and immediately check my HUD.
[OXI: 2,310 / 2,500]
Just staying near those two while they leak energy without restraint has drained almost two hundred points of my OXI. It is like loitering inside an area contaminated by radiation. The body absorbs the pressure passively, no direct combat required, no permission asked.
'Ridiculous…'
