Autor nods, and then shakes his head. "I can't even fathom how these have evolved to this point. A death in a burrow would set off such a nasty chain reaction."

The rest of her explanation is met with more nodding. "Well," he says, and leans the Staff of Light up on one of the practice range's barriers. "Did we want to bother setting up targets, or just start flinging a few?"

Later on, they can experiment with fuses of sorts.