Hill watched the joyful scene on the giant screen, but his heart was full of questions. He could not help turning to ask the softly spilling moonlight, "Honored Selûne, why was the Lady of the Night in such a hurry to expose Ekak?
"Was she not worried that Amaunator would benefit from it?"
Selûne asked in surprise, "I remember you got along fairly well with the elementals, didn't you? Since when did they measure their speed of action in days?
"Of course Shar had to seize the time. One day earlier could mean Ekak got dealt with a whole year earlier."
Hill fell silent for a few seconds before saying, "I thought those on Toril were more impulsive... Those on Telashir were always leisurely in everything they did, and they rarely fought for so long... Generally speaking, once victory was decided, that was enough.
"It was rare to see them fight to the death."
"Calim and Memnon are different. Their mortal enmity was forged over hundreds of thousands of years," Selûne said indifferently. "Before they started fighting, they had also gathered their followers and held meetings for a long time... They were probably deadlocked for thirty or forty thousand years.
"Only then did they finally decide that one of them had to disappear.
"Elemental Giants are rather stubborn. Once they decide to become open enemies, they will persist until one side completely admits defeat.
"But reaching that point takes a very long time.
"Otherwise, how would Ekak and that magma monster have had the chance to kill the good fire elemental prince? Their meeting on how Order Elementals should fight Chaos Elementals dragged on for too long, and they could never reach a consensus... Otherwise, Baristia would not have been ambushed just because she was distracted, with even her crystal