Tirian's narrative had finally concluded, yet in Duncan's view, the bizarre story had ended too abruptly.
"Is everything over? Is it just over like that?" He couldn't help but look through the mirror at the great pirate opposite him, his tone full of skepticism. "A submarine, carrying a hold of explosives, runs down to a thousand meters deep, and just solves the continuously worsening 'uncontrolled Transcendent phenomenon'? Let's not discuss how much power those explosives could unleash at a thousand meters deep—the key issue, from a Transcendent perspective, is whether such an explosion could destroy a... supernatural phenomenon?"
