Chapter 6: Custody Battle - Round 2
"You..." he pointed at Brigit. "You are the one who attacked Dysith!"
"What?" All three of them said at the same time.
"Three years ago... that light shone outside the capital. It destroyed the fields of Perdition and scoured a crater a great measure wide!" A great measure was one hundred spans long, roughly equivalent to a kilometer with a bit of extra. The look in Maledict's eyes wasn't angry. On the contrary, it was greedy.
And Kir got a bad feeling in his gut. The nova blast Brigit had just used was far below the power of the one Kir had first demonstrated. Hers was more on par with his first experiments with the spell, since even after three years her capacity for science was still below his... Thinking back to three years ago...
"Wait... are you telling me that Hell is on the first moon?" Kir shouted, pointing backward and up at the moon in question.
"Wait, you didn't know that?" Darlae asked at the same time as Maledict.
They shared an awkward moment of eye contact and then looked away.
"I thought he knew!" Brigit said. "Besides, how was I supposed to know his spell would actually reach the damned thing?"
Dropping the scroll rod, Maledict began to shrink until he was at the same height as before, though still entirely devilish in appearance.