Tommi knows nothing about how magic items are made, and even less about how they end. He guesses they can be broken, and he guesses the magic can wear out. Did that hold true for this rod? He had no idea. Lionel had found it, and he imagines if he does nothing with it, he could put it back behind the altar and all would return to how it had been before. Until another Lionel came walking by, in 5, or 10, or 500 years. He had no idea.
He's heard of wizard's labs exploding though, he realizes as he tries to bend the rod with his knee. Fiery blazes that consume a whole building, leaving no one alive, and the villagers just never talk about it again. In fact, he's pretty certain he's been told never to mess with magic, whatever that means in practice, as he tires to imagine how big an explosion a little rod like this might cause. Would Lionel and the others be safe? He assumes so, but he doesn't know. Maybe I should have put my gloves on first, he thinks.
Based on no certainty at all, as the young man strains to break the rod foiling the Pit Fiend's ambitions (or accomplishing them; he wasn't entirely sure, admittedly), and wondering how big a fireball might emerge (if any did, or if he were around after the fact to contemplate the matter), he gave himself an extra oomph.
He's heard of wizard's labs exploding though, he realizes as he tries to bend the rod with his knee. Fiery blazes that consume a whole building, leaving no one alive, and the villagers just never talk about it again. In fact, he's pretty certain he's been told never to mess with magic, whatever that means in practice, as he tires to imagine how big an explosion a little rod like this might cause. Would Lionel and the others be safe? He assumes so, but he doesn't know. Maybe I should have put my gloves on first, he thinks.
Based on no certainty at all, as the young man strains to break the rod foiling the Pit Fiend's ambitions (or accomplishing them; he wasn't entirely sure, admittedly), and wondering how big a fireball might emerge (if any did, or if he were around after the fact to contemplate the matter), he gave himself an extra oomph.
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