[In an instant, the near reverent silence of Dom’s study is cut—]
Oh, no— [—with a harsh, fizzling electric pop, followed quickly at the heels by the resounding crash of shattering glass.] Noooo, no, no, no…
[It’d been a simple spell to instill an aura of strength, but one he’d been focusing and refining: honed and concentrated down to affect a houseplant, housed within a glass terrarium not much larger than a child’s ball.]
God. Dirt everywhere.
[ Evidently, it hadn’t worked. The plant hadn’t survived (it'd swollen in size until the container could no longer hold it), and neither had the terrarium (naturally): now flecked with dirt, fragments of ripped green plant matter, and minuscule shards of glass, Dom's bustling around, in a panicked hunt for glass bits. And maybe a dustpan.]
Don't come in yet, [he announces at the sound of footsteps,] just-- five minutes, please!
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Oh, no— [—with a harsh, fizzling electric pop, followed quickly at the heels by the resounding crash of shattering glass.] Noooo, no, no, no…
[It’d been a simple spell to instill an aura of strength, but one he’d been focusing and refining: honed and concentrated down to affect a houseplant, housed within a glass terrarium not much larger than a child’s ball.]
God. Dirt everywhere.
[ Evidently, it hadn’t worked. The plant hadn’t survived (it'd swollen in size until the container could no longer hold it), and neither had the terrarium (naturally): now flecked with dirt, fragments of ripped green plant matter, and minuscule shards of glass, Dom's bustling around, in a panicked hunt for glass bits. And maybe a dustpan.]
Don't come in yet, [he announces at the sound of footsteps,] just-- five minutes, please!