He gave her a mental laugh.<em>No, but Meridia might have known about it, hence my question. Meridia's education was so esoteric I have no idea what she knows or doesn't half the time. But I guess I can leave a majority of the plating here, not like scavengers can run off with several hundred pounds of plating in the couple hours it will take to get a scavenging team down here.</em><br/><br/>He was talking mostly to waste time while he waited to regain his breath, and began cutting into the purple worm to try and figure out where the bulette was. He needed the main top fin of the bulette to claim the bounty, the main head plating of the purple worm to mount somewhere, and the rest of the plating of both creatures was going to be commissioned into armor for the local guards. A few minutes of speculative cutting, he had the main fin of the bulette, the corpse hadn't gone far as he had thought into the worm, and had sliced off one of the fangs of the purple worm as proof of that victory.<br/><br/>He turned and headed back to town, covered in purple worm guts and slime, whistling tunelessly, and grinning wildly. The stories the bards were gonna make about this were going to be utterly insane, if not completely inane.