ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

Now, this guy didn't kill me, but it did seem peculiar that it seemed, both on screen and in messages, that a sand-drake unleashed his breath weapon the turn after I slew him.

Am I confused or do these guys get one extra blow off after they die?

Here's the code surrounding the event (I'm Boomer):

[LOG] Boomer casts Flame.
USING table: 0A58AFB0 Flame
[SPELL CRIT %] 9.6
[PROJECTOR] starting dam 121.48143787561
[PROJECTOR] after difficulty dam 121.48143787561
[PROJECTOR] res 30 0.7 on dam 126.34069539064
[PROJECTOR] final dam 88.438486773447
[LOG] Boomer hits sand-drake for #LIGHT_RED#88.44 fire damage#LAST#.
[LOG] Sand-drake is on fire!
[PROJECTOR] starting dam 40.493812625205
[PROJECTOR] after difficulty dam 40.493812625205
[PROJECTOR] res 30 0.7 on dam 42.113565130213
[PROJECTOR] final dam 29.479495591149
[LOG] Boomer hits sand-drake for #LIGHT_RED#29.48 fire damage#LAST#.
[LOG] Boomer killed sand-drake!
[Equilibrium] Use chance: 94.226497308104
sand-drake 21707 dumb ai talents can use Sand Breath 185
dumb ai uses 185
[Equilibrium] Use chance: 94.226497308104
[LOG] Sand-drake breathes sand!
USING table: 0A471808 Sand Breath
[SOUND] loading from /data/sound/talents/breath.wav :=: userdata: 0AA07FB8
[LOG] #00ff00#Talent Manathrust is ready to use.

The messages for lingering damage (e.g. from the Flame spell) often appear out of sequence. I believe what happened here was: you hit him with Flame, and then on his turn, he breathed on you and took lingering Flame damage. The lingering damage killed him after he breathed on you, but the messages were reversed.