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Talon brushed of her comment without pause, chuckling as he tended to do so at her wanton accusations. He leaned down to her ear and whispered the words she had thought he would never say. "Work you magic, love. Show them how they underestimate you and I."

Forgetting current implications, Jennifer licked her lips as a broad grin of anticipation grew on them. “This is a strange change of pace, you giving me permission to use my powers,” Jennifer commented coyly. Wrapping her arm around his neck, she turned her head slightly and drew him close enough to kiss. Leaning back, she gazed at Talon, her dark eyes alight with the exhilarating prospects of carnage.

“Not that I’ll complain. Just make sure lil’ miss piper doesn’t get in my way.”

The air hummed, coming to life on its own as Jennifer’s magic congregated. She pushed Talon back a few steps, suggesting the immediate area around her was treacherous. “I’ve never tried to destroy a city before! World fracture!” she yelled, extending her right arm in front of her and pointing it at the gate, “Knock knock!”

Reality screamed as two score catapults materialized from nothing in a grid pattern behind Jennifer, each one primed and loaded. Standing beyond the shadow of the front gates, Jennifer flicked her wrist. The siege machines creaked as twisted ropes sprang cut. Succumbing to tension, their baskets shot out, flinging a deadly barrage of boulders. They soared overhead, dotting the sky with their numbers before crashing into the walls surrounding the gate. Stone cracked, showering the walls in dust and rubble as boulder after boulder slammed against masonry, some rolling onto the ground, others imbedding themselves in granite. The walls issued a groan, protesting against the brutal assault. It threatened to give way but Jennifer had no intentions of showing restraint.

Abruptly, the bombardment stopped midway. Shaking her head, Jennifer frowned at the display, “No, no, no, I can do much better than that…”

Subject to the whims of her mind, the armada of catapults vanished into thin air without utterance. Jennifer plied her fingers, already preparing to mold her magic in new ways. “Maybe they didn’t hear us the first time!” she called, winking at Talon. Too preoccupied with her magic, she missed whatever expression he wore.

Lifting her right hand to the sky, Jennifer laughed as she spoke the next words, “World fracture!”

Swinging her arm forth, Jennifer looked like a general giving the order to fire, yet nothing appeared at first. Quite easy to mistake the following silence as failure, Jennifer held the position for a while longer, as if waiting for something to happen.

When it came, it came with a roar of thunder. Entering the planet’s atmosphere, the phenomenon screeched downwards, catching the attention of everyone. A fiery streak lined the path of its trajectory as the meteor spiraled down to Lastra.

“I’d suggest you all take cover!” Jennifer cackled.

No larger than a cottage, the comet smashed into the gates. Alongside broken fragments, it showered the plains with white light, temporarily blinding its witnesses. Though they could not see the moment of contact, they could certainly feel it through the violent tremor that shook the earth. The earthquake lasted for less than a minute as bits of wall, steel and meteorite rained across the ground. Splintered and strewn like tinder, mounds of dirt surrounded the disaster zone where the force had thrown them out. The hand of fire left its black mark on Laowlee, and where the gate once was, nothing remained standing.

“I said knock knock!” she announced, stepping over the wreckage. The mage planted her hands on her hips expectantly, almost demanding for some form of retaliation.