I suppose I was expecting something more confrontational.

No need to edit, really. We can always substitute in my favorite writing trick: if you don't know how to progress a scene, have someone burst in with a gun.

Or we can have aliens attack or something. Up to you, all the same to me.

I'm still working on a second character. I know I want to do something more magic, but my current two concepts are [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGKNaIXtBZQ]a chaos space wizard[/url], or [url=https://youtu.be/pS6HRKZQLFA?t=107]a magic pharaoh disguised as a rap star[/url].