"What do you think of the timeline?"
I inspected the length of ribbon again, curling one end onto my finger, tracing the course of events, "A little grim right here... What happened?"
My apprentice shuffled his feet, dusting off his robes as if he hadn't heard me.
"What did you do?" I snapped.
"I wanted to conjure a pretty meteor shower!"
I looked at the ribbon again, sighing, "No point wasting this orb, let's see how the mammals do..."