The abomination known as the thirst for knowledge could be heard clambering up the stairwell. Eucomis could not evade its relentless pursuit as she ceaselessly dissected one creature after another, piling their corpses to the ceiling. No matter how much protection the Elvarran Empire provided, she knew that the time of reckoning for her meaningless slaughter was imminent. Therefore, she sought not for a way to elude that reckoning, but to instill meaning in each life taken.