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Now she had my attention. She was actually talking to me, not reading from a list of predetermined responses she'd practiced with her mother.
"Was I the first lord your parents sent a letter to? Your answer won't change anything, I'm just curious." I said, trying to be reassuring, because I really just wanted to know how desperate her parents were.
Yubelluna shook her head. "I don't know how many they tried. We've…we've been selling things to pay for the letters. No one responded. Only you."
That explained a lot. Both with how the letter was paid for and why her parents were acting like zealots who would fall on their swords if I told them to.
They wanted to give their daughter a better life than whatever was waiting for them, so they were spending their last months of freedom to try and get her into a peerage.
I wasn't going to lie, their lives sounded rough, and I would probably do something to help them out regardless of how things went, but a sob story wasn't reason enough for me to let this girl into my peerage.
There were some incredibly powerful people in this world that I remembered from my first life. I didn't have a cohesive list of everyone I wanted in my peerage, but I did have a general outline of potential choices.
The name 'Yubelluna' wasn't on it. That said, I was here anyway, so I figured I may as well dot my 'i's and cross my 't's.
"You said that you made the hole in the wall and destroyed a table, right?"
"Yes, my lord."
"How?"
Yubelluna looked away, refusing to meet my eyes. "It…I blew it u-up."
"Can you demonstrate?"
"Not s'posed to do it in the house." she said, nervously rubbing her arm as she looked at the floor.
I laughed. "That's fine. We can go outside if it makes you more comfortable."
She smiled, seemingly excitedly, and stood up. "Ok! Let's go to the yard." Her features morphed until she was looking at me with a horrified expression on her face.
"I mean, please follow me my lord." she quickly corrected herself, shuffling from the room.
This obsession with decorum was getting tedious.
"Clarissa? Could you please tell her parents what we're doing so they don't think we kidnapped their daughter?"
"Of course, my lord. I will be with you momentarily." she said as she stood, walking down the hallway Yubelluna's parents fled down.
I stood and followed after Yubelluna, finding myself in a small yard. There was room to run and it was proportional to the house, but it couldn't have been said to be large.
The grass was all colored a dead brown. The only other notable feature was a single charred tree with no leaves that looked like a bony hand reaching up towards the sky.
Yubelluna was shuffling nervously from foot to foot in the grass, staring at the tree as she muttered to herself.
I wasn't close enough to hear what she was saying, but judging by everything else I'd seen of her, it was probably another product of her nerves.
Gently, so as to avoid startling her too badly, I laid a hand on her shoulder and said, "Breathe. Take a deep breath and compose yourself. I'll wait."
"Thank you, my lord." she responded reflexively, but I noticed her actually breathing now, so I took a step back and gave her a moment.
Almost a full minute later – time enough for Clarissa to rejoin us and take up a position at my side, Yubelluna's parents nowhere to be seen – Yubelluna let out a purposeful breath, and raised both of her arms.
Raw, uncontrolled magic burst forth from her hands and slammed into the tree. A resounding booming sound like that of a cannon firing echoed throughout the area as the tree disappeared.
One moment it was standing there in all of its decaying glory, the next it was swallowed by a massive ball of destructive force and fire, the next moment the fire was gone, the tree gone with it.
It actually reminded me a little of the Bael Power of Destruction – the difference being Yubelluna hadn't erased the tree from existence like the Bael's power was known for doing, just annihilated it.
A hum of appreciation from Clarissa told me all I needed to know about her opinion. She was hard to please and rare to show praise of any kind.
Even something so minute as a small noise from her was equivalent to a shower of praise from another.
I had to agree. That was pretty impressive. I wasn't capable of causing something to blow up that spectacularly.
Granted, my explosions were a product of my much more powerful fire, but it was still impressive that Yubelluna was able to pull that off without having refined her spell through a circle.
Her lack of formal training was plain to see; with formal training she would likely be even more impressive.
Sadly, one attack was not enough to justify giving her a piece, even a pawn. If it was all she could do to launch one attack, no matter how devastating, all anyone would have to do to stop her was to dodge that attack then strike her when she was exhausted.
I turned away from the destruction caused by her spell to the girl in question, and I raised an eyebrow, impressed.
She did not look tired in the slightest. In fact, she was smiling. For the first time since I'd met her, she seemed to be in her element, relaxed, excited.
"Can you do that again?" I asked, drawing her attention to me.
She turned to me, still smiling, and nodded. "Yes, my lord. But I have no target."
I studied her for a moment, wondering how many more of those blasts she had in her.
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