Your sedatives have been a Saints send.

[And because she had asked him to keep her updated (also because he does feel quite bad for upsetting her):]

I could feel the monster responding when everything went dark. The sedatives helped me focus on holding it down. An extra dose of manna certainly didn't go amiss either.

[He includes this detail for purely scientific reasons, of course.]

What do you mean "nothing worked"? Is everything all right with you?