Quote Originally Posted by RichTF View Post
Serini does say that “[the trolls] found me moments after”, so maybe Xykon assumed that they would finish her off. We know he enjoys seeing other monsters do his dirty work for him.
I love that interpretation, since it plays on the cynicism and disrespect for monsters to cause Xykon's eventual downfall. (Though/And it raises some uncomfortable parallels with Lien's disappointing answer to Serini now.)

Quote Originally Posted by Fyraltari View Post
She says he left her for dead so he may have thought he had made sure she was dead.
Well, yes. I have no doubt that he thought he killed her. I just think it's very careless in the OoTS world to assume someone's dead (and more importantly, unable to come back) just because they're a charred lump of raw meat.