"Captain, are you sure this is safe?" Alice asked nervously, staring at the little flame in Duncan's hand. She kept tugging at the lace on her clothes. "Don't burn down my house..."
Duncan held a small flame made of spiritual energy, looking for a place to start near Alice's "coffin." He turned back to her with a helpless expression. "My spiritual flame is completely under control—don't you trust my abilities?"
Alice quickly waved her hands. "I do, I do..."
With that, Duncan focused himself and returned his attention to the task at hand. Given the current conditions on the Lost Homeland, it was unlikely he could conduct a full test on Alice's "coffin." However, that didn't mean he couldn't do some preliminary research. As he became more skilled at controlling the spiritual flame, he had started to grasp ways to use it to explore the secrets within extraordinary objects.
He still hesitated to use the flame directly on Alice, but studying her wooden box was a different matter.