A Thank You Would Have Sufficed
Holding his cat and turkey friend by the neck like two lost puppies, Jake reappeared perched atop a tree over twenty kilometers from the devastated area. From his vantage point, he could clearly see, through his cosmic vision, the spatial rift gradually closing, leaving nothing in its wake. Conversely, the blast of the residual explosion that had disintegrated River's Bane continued to spread, rapidly expanding towards the outskirts of Lustris City…
The capital of the Lustra Plains was still smoldering, evidently still engulfed in flames... It shouldn't make much difference if kilometers of water pushed by the explosion's blast unexpectedly showed up at their windows. Probably…
Jake felt bad for the civilians who had nothing to do with their Ordeal or this continental war, but he didn't let guilt weigh him down. After all, it wasn't his fault that the damn cephalopod had released all the Water Lumyst in its Core before kicking the bucket…