Chapter 162: Experience [bonus]
Regulus stood, leaving the window behind.
One last glance at the row of planting troughs. Twenty Mandrake husks still lying where they'd fallen. Agnes would take care of them.
He pushed open the greenhouse door, crossed back to the main house, climbed the stairs, opened his bedroom door, and collapsed onto the bed.
Ten days.
Less than twenty hours of sleep across all of them. Even with his mental resilience and physical conditioning, exhaustion was seeping out of every cell.
Star Guided meditation could restore energy, but it couldn't replace sleep. Some debts could only be repaid the old-fashioned way.
His eyes closed. Consciousness sank into black.
When they opened again, daylight flooded the window.
He lay on his back, staring at the ceiling beams for a while.