"Yeah, I did, at first, anyway," he'd been scared his village was dying, but he also knew he desperately wanted his father to see something worthy in him- that maybe if he managed to fix it his dad would be proud. "...It didn't stay that way."

Because Luca is right, it did go very, very wrong.

"I made a chemical compound to try and break down the rocks, Dad found out and was really mad about it. But the compound...reacted to the rock strangely. It created an ember that grew exponentially," he frowns, the memory very much burned into his mind forever. "It nearly caught me in it, but Dad pushed me out of the way just in time. He got stuck in it and it was encasing him. I...I went to Rapunzel for help, but the Kingdom was in the midst of a blizzard. She... she couldn't leave her people to help me."