Seventeen -
Tales of Destiny, Stahn kills the rest of the party
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"Huh? Oh! Sorry, Dymlos. It's just--" Stahn poked at the floating layer of earth over his head again, burying Dymlos' tip into it. "--I don't see why we can't just dig up through this. It's just dirt, right?"

"Stop that," Dymlos said again, shivering grumpily in Stahn's grip. "It's bad enough when you jam me into the ground to do that Hellfire attack. Now you're just doing it to be rude. Stop that and put me away."

Stahn was quiet. After a moment he brought up the lantern in his other hand, studying the Aethersphere over his head. He ticked Dymlos' tip off a pebble embedded in the earth. The pebble clicked to his feet and bounced away, clattering along until it bounced off the heel of Rutee's boot. Rutee scowled and kicked it away and went back to ignoring Stahn (which she was good at).

"Stahn, whatever you're thinking, stop thinking it--" Dymlos started to say.

"We'll be through this in no time! Hang on!" Stahn closed his eyes, flipped Dymlos over, and grabbed the hilt in both hands. "Hellfire!" he shouted, and sank Dymlos deep into the earth over his head.

Earth and lava exploded over his head--

The next thing Stahn knew, he was waking up back in the inn at Moreau. It was easy to convince himself it had just been a nightmare, until he ran downstairs to join the rest of the party and Rutee stopped ignoring him long enough to smack the back of his head.