So the thing bounced off of Damons armour and rolled along the cobbled road in the direction of Lady Erressea.As the Duke later recalled time seemed to slow down as everyone within range of the sputter thing ran as fast as they could away from it.
The device was clearly labelled Dragon TF,had the glowing runes and wavy colours of a dragon tf device and if the village idiot shuffling towards it couldn't miss
the highly corrosive magics within the clay ball were causing the clay shell to wobble and weave as the clay sprouted black dragon scales.
This thing really wanted to get a dragon going one way or another.
Luckily for the Village Idiot Lady Errisseas two guards grabbed him and hauled him away
from the device at the same time they were heaving Lady Errisea away as well.
So the device just lay there on the cobble stones all by itself
everyone safely out of its range went it went
"BOOM"
And then the hissing and sputtering stopped and the device just lay there
apparently not ready to go "BOOM"
Which meant it would be properly defuzed and then properly
examined by the Royal Forensics Team
who would take it apart and scour the Kingdom for the bombmaker
"Aye aye Copper,Old Hagatha the Witch bought some TF Catalyst from me 5 years ago"
And the Coppers would get Old Hagatha to admit she sold something to Old Hildee
which would all be traced back to the Duke eventually
So glowering at the thing once more for not doing its job like it was supposed to
the Duke went to silence the Witch Anarchist before she blabbed
Dead Witches tell no tales