There was no one who celebrated after the shark died. At most, a couple of sighs of relief. They had won, but the victory didn't come cheap. Joshua had pushed himself into a coma, and Scrael had lost her right paw and a small part of her leg. And unlike void beasts, Scrael couldn't just regenerate her leg. It would take some pretty incredible magic to fix that since even Stitches, a high level mage, couldn't do it.
Stitches couldn't heal Scrael completely, but he could stop the bleeding and make Scrael grow skin over the stump. Scrael kept up a brave face as she hobbled around and got used to moving with three legs instead of the usual four. But Toz and the other cats could tell that she was hurting.
