Presumably hours passed by with little to no progress being made - or at least what felt like no progress being made - and a whole lot of pain wracking my body, which made this one of the worst experiences in both of my lives.
Honestly, even though I barely remembered the pain from dying, I still think I would put this current experience above that in terms of how horrible it was, though obviously the end result of both of those things was drastically different.
I just... I was so exhausted and utterly drained of everything, and yet the pain was keeping me awake as I pushed and pushed to no avail, those five pups continuing to be troublesome little things that were definitely going to be reprimanded many a time for this transgression of theirs...
Practically nothing that any of the healers did really seemed to help me besides just keeping me from passing out, and even then I was beginning to curse them for that since the allure of sheer emptiness seemed so much better than this.
