The only one to make it out of the battle between Zach and the Child of the Hydra unscathed was Borso. He had listened to Zach when he said run, and boy did Borso run. He put his legs on his back and hauled ass. He ran quicker than he had ever done before despite running on sand.
Borso instincts were screaming at him that if he didn't run with all he had, he would be a goner.
It was just that his instincts were a little oversensitive.
Borso wasn't even strong enough to pop up on the Child's radar. If he had stayed, and the Child won, he would have died eventually. But since he poofed at once while the Child only cared about Zach, he had also poofed from the Child's mind.
If the Child were alive and were to be asked how many people had arrived at the nineteenth floor, interrupting its worm massacre, he would have answered three. He didn't even remember Borso.
But Borso remembered him.
