"One of the most basic correlations in magic weapon design is size to power level. If you can conjure me a weapon big enough..." he flicks his fingers, "there go most of the traditional limitations on materials and design." He reflects on this for a moment, and then adds more prudently, "We should probably pick a very large, very empty staging area to test the really big stuff. And work up to it slowly. I don't want to find out my math was off by force-blasting the planet in half."

"Uh, yeah, not blasting the planet in half." Pause. "Could that be done by this magic of yours? Blasting the planet in half?"

"In theory, yes. In practice, it might turn out that there's an upper limit no one's ever reached because they physically couldn't build a force cannon big enough. We have the opportunity to find out."

"Hmm. I wonder if that'd be enough to kill an Endbringer."

"Once again, we have the opportunity to find out."

Grin. "It's kinda really attractive when you talk about throwing power around like that."

"Good to know. So where should we go on our next date? Is there anywhere sufficiently desolate and underobserved nearby?"

"Hmmm the Boat Graveyard, maybe? Or I could conjure us platforms out in the ocean."

"Those sound like good options."

"It's a second date, then," she giggles.

"Perfect. When? I will absolutely rearrange my schedule as much as possible to facilitate getting out there sooner and playing with exciting implements of destruction, but I understand you sunlit folk like to sleep at night so it probably shouldn't be literally right now."

"And if it were right now it'd still count as one date," she points out. "My greatest constraints are school and work. I'm free most Sundays? And some weekday evenings, but not all. Also, sunlit folk? When do you sleep?"

"Whenever I feel like it. There aren't days in Aluvanna the way you get them here. The sun passes the edge of the planet approximately once every twelve hours, and that's when we get most of our sunlight."

"'The edge of the planet.'"

"...You remember that map I drew?"

"Yes. I had assumed you were really bad at drawing. I have a rough picture in my head after you mentioned it being hollow but. Still."

"Yeah. The sides are mostly flattish; the edge is mostly absent, but what there is of it is rounded. And that's where nearly all the light gets in, because it's more chasm than ground out there."

"To be honest I'm kinda super surprised humans managed to evolve like that? I mean what are the odds?"

"Good question. I have no idea. We don't have nearly so active a study of prehistory as you seem to."

"I wonder why not."

"I'm not sure."

"What's your history like anyway? Technology? Society? Are Aluvanna and Ceirene two kingdoms, with, like, royalty and hereditary titles?"

"Aluvanna is... yeah, 'kingdom' is a reasonable term for it. We don't go in for titles much, but what we have is hereditary. Ceir is... different, and I've studied their politics but I can't think of a close local equivalent."

"Different how?"

"I'll explain when I've finished researching Earth politics for comparisons."