Setne explosion

Sadie scanned the field for Setne. “Where is the skinny old git?” The skinny old git appeared right behind her. He spoke a single word from his scroll of nasty surprises, and the ground exploded. When I regained my senses, I was still standing, which was a minor miracle. The force of the spell had pushed me away from Setne, so my shoes had made trenches in the mud. I looked up, but I couldn’t make sense of what I was seeing. Around Setne, the earth had ruptured in a ten-foot-diameter ring, splitting open like a seedpod.

CoP pg.29