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Stuff happened below, but the Oracle was far too busy looking at itself. Specifically, looking at its wound in order to treat it. The corpse, normally passive, was now animated enough to pinch the flesh of its sliced side shut while the Oracle used its eyebeam to sear the wound shut (it might have been ineffective the boy, but vs other low level monsters like itself? It worked just fine).

Its chorus of soft pained sounds ended when something floated up next to it, namely the snooted specter Schnupfen. The Oracle glanced at this, saw the rock the ghost had in hand, and then followed said rock’s descent as it plummeted down with the force of gravity and landed squarely on top of the crawling boy’s skull. There was a crack as it struck, followed by a second overlapping crack as the boy’s head then hit the stone floor.

The Oracle started at this for a few moments. Then, after the boy did not rise but instead simply lay their face first bleeding onto the stones, glanced around a few times before spotting the Kobold who had been summoned.

It thrust a finger out and, with a deep booming voice that made the minion leap back with fright, shouted “YOUUUUU!” at it before pointing down at the boy and much more calmly commanding it to “check if he’s dead”

The kobold gulped, before shakily saluting and then scampered over to carefully poke the boy’s body with his spear, keeping as much distance between itself and the boy as possible while doing so. The scene was somewhat reminiscent of a kid poking a possum with a stick to see if it was just playing dead, which, in the kobold’s defense, was basically what it had been asked to do. 

The boy, unsurprisingly, did not move.

“More vigorously, the duplicitous pawn of the enemy might just be stunned!” the Oracle insisted, prompting some actual stabbing, and then, once that had no effect, the kobold getting its spear in place and, with a lot of effort, driving it down through the heart of the boy, staking him like a vampire. 

At the sight of this, the Oracle tossed up its 4 hands in jubilation and announcing "Glorious news everyone! We’ve killed a child!” before clapping them together again and asking ”now, who requires the touch of my holy healing hands?”