The book was both remarkably outsized and strikingly heavy, but fortunately for her efforts to pick it up, it had gone completely still at her words.

"What the--?! Hey!" Zetta glared at her. "You're not supposed to be grateful! You're supposed to gnash your teeth and rue the day you ever encountered the most badass freaking Overlord in the entire cosmos! I mean..." he added, a bit more hesitantly, "I admit I didn't destroy your planet and condemn your soul to an eternity of tormented servitude, so I can't claim this is my best work -- but you got hit with a slime! It's totally disgusting!"