"I wasn't expecting it to be quite that... gone, though. Wow."

"No kidding." He starts going back from the end of writing; how long did it take to get that big?

The crater's growth was fairly stable on the monthly-intervals level, about ten of them all told from when it appeared to when it hit magma, but the flooding was noticeable at this scale before the crater was. Tiro gazes in fascination at the small planets.

"I feel like these should be all strung up on a chain in chronological order and hung decoratively from a ceiling as a warning."

"I wish we knew what specifically they were warning against!"

"...chain-reactive alchemy?"

"That seems like a good guess for what happened to the Problem Continent. And I guess there are obvious ways to avoid accidentally creating ravening fiends. What's missing is... I don't know what exactly the Problem Continent people did wrong that caused their continent to be eaten by Problems."

"Well, if we are very lucky, they wrote it down."

"Are you going to conjure the entire written works of the Problem Continent?"

"I may!"

"Have I mentioned you're really handy?"

"I believe so." Wag.

"Well, I'm mentioning it again. You're really handy."

"I pride myself on this."

"It's a good thing to pride yourself on!"